May
Opera in Concert: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
Berkshire Bach Society
Friday May 9, 2008 /8pm$40/$25/ BBS Member Discount Available & Students Free with valid ID
This mid-eighteenth-century opera contains some of Gluck's most moving choral music and arias, along with descriptive instrumental ballets. Please join the Berkshire Bach Singers, with distinguished soloists including Teresa Buchholz, and the Berkshire Bach Orchestra, all under the direction of world-renowned maestro James Bagwell, for what will surely be a moving musical event.
Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment (Encore Presentation Broadcast in HD) RSVP for LECTURE & LUNCH pre-broadcast!
The Metropolitan Opera & The Mahaiwe
Saturday May 10, 2008 / 1:30 PM (Lecture 11AM/Lunch 12PM)Individual Tickets: $23 Adults/ $21 Seniors/$16 Children under 13
Composer Gaetano Donizetti. Approximate running time 2 hrs. 45 min. Sung in French with English, Spanish and German subtitles.
Experience the "exceedingly yummy operatic cake" that was called "the operatic show of the season" by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden this past winter. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay's fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Florez's remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high C's. Dessay and Florez are an "operatic coupling made in heaven" raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award¨ winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp.
La Fille du RŽgiment is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna.
Saturday afternoon's complimentary LECTURE with Juilliard's own Scott Eyerly will be at St. James Church)*All are welcome to attend!* Lecture begins at 11am. Lunch at noon at Castle Street Cafe, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington. $15pp cash or check only, please!
Experience the "exceedingly yummy operatic cake" that was called "the operatic show of the season" by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden this past winter. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay's fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Florez's remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high C's. Dessay and Florez are an "operatic coupling made in heaven" raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award¨ winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp.
La Fille du RŽgiment is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna.
Saturday afternoon's complimentary LECTURE with Juilliard's own Scott Eyerly will be at St. James Church)*All are welcome to attend!* Lecture begins at 11am. Lunch at noon at Castle Street Cafe, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington. $15pp cash or check only, please!
Berkshire International Film Festival
BIFFMA
Thursday - Sunday May 15-18 , 2008 $10 General Admission for each of the four selected films screening at The Mahaiwe
The 3rd Annual Berkshire International Film Festival brings the best in
independent film, Q&A's, discussions with filmmakers, and fun parties to
Great Barrington.
The BIFF will once again showcase over 50 feature films, documentaries and shorts from over 12 different countries as well as a selection of films from Berkshire student filmmakers.
Highlights at the Mahaiwe will be the opening night premiere film,MAN ON WIRE, the tribute evening honoring Kevin Bacon, and a special screening of the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner, with a presentation by special effects icon Doug Trumbull.
Opening Night Premiere Film Thursday May 15 at 7:30pm: MAN ON WIRE
BIFF Special Screening THE RIVER WILD Friday May 16 at 1pm
Tribute for 2008 BIFF Honoree Kevin Bacon and screening of BIG PICTURE Friday May 16 at 8pm
Special Screening of Blade Runner with Doug Trumbull Sunday May 18 at 2pm
Tickets all on-sale through The Mahaiwe.
The BIFF will once again showcase over 50 feature films, documentaries and shorts from over 12 different countries as well as a selection of films from Berkshire student filmmakers.
Highlights at the Mahaiwe will be the opening night premiere film,MAN ON WIRE, the tribute evening honoring Kevin Bacon, and a special screening of the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner, with a presentation by special effects icon Doug Trumbull.
Opening Night Premiere Film Thursday May 15 at 7:30pm: MAN ON WIRE
BIFF Special Screening THE RIVER WILD Friday May 16 at 1pm
Tribute for 2008 BIFF Honoree Kevin Bacon and screening of BIG PICTURE Friday May 16 at 8pm
Special Screening of Blade Runner with Doug Trumbull Sunday May 18 at 2pm
Tickets all on-sale through The Mahaiwe.
GYPSY!
Close Encounters With Music
Saturday May 24, 2008 /6pm$40/ $10 Students with valid ID - $25 Balcony Seats Now Available
Musical fireworks, passion, vertiginous speed, and laughter through tears are hallmarks of Romanian and Gypsy music. Gypsy themes in Haydn's Piano Trio in G Major, Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor, Ravel's Tzigane, and David Popper's Rhapsody provide a map to a certain world of poetic and passionate melancholy. A cameo appearance by Bizet's famous gypsy, Carmen, in the guise of Metropolitan mezzo-soprano Lucille Beer. Dress cod: Gypsy, Bravura!
Lydia Artymix, piano; Vadim Gluzman, violin; Michael Klotz, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello
Lydia Artymix, piano; Vadim Gluzman, violin; Michael Klotz, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello
Paul Taylor Dance Company
$20 Family Friendly Matinee / $50 Evening Performance ($45 Mahaiwe Members)
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company in two performances on Saturday May 31, 2008 at 2pm & 7:30pm. The 2pm performance is a one-hour family friendly matinee featuring Diggity and Cloven Kingdom. The evening performance features Diggity, Arden Court and the Company Premiere of Paul Taylor's newest work, Changes. Family Matinee Tickets: $20 All Seats. Evening Performance: $250 (includes post performance party with dancers) / $50 Reserved Seating/ $45 Mahaiwe Members. Tickets on sale to Mahaiwe Members Saturday, April 5. General Public sales begin Friday, April 11.
Set to songs of The Mamas and The Papas, Changes is accompanied by a program note that states: "We remember the Sixties as being defined by the demand for radical change. Rejecting politicians' fear-mongering and their disastrous war in Vietnam, young people questioned authority and embraced liberation movements. While this era seems singular, in fact it was not. The more things change, the more they stay the same." Changes has costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The evening program also features the 1978 dance Diggity, a delightful romp in which Alex Katz-designed dogs on stage create an obstacle course for the dancers, and Arden Court (1981), an ebullient celebration of movement set to a baroque score.
Family friendly afternoon performance includes Diggity and Cloven Kingdom (1976), in which the choreographer reveals the animal nature lurking just beneath man's sophisticated veneer.
SPECIAL EVENING INVITATION: $250 per person for Preferred Seating for The Premiere of Changes to the music of the Mamas and the Papas, and Post Premiere Party including light supper and refreshments, along with meet greet and sweet retreat with the dancers of Paul Taylor Dance Company at Crissey Farm with this celebrated & talented dance troupe!
Set to songs of The Mamas and The Papas, Changes is accompanied by a program note that states: "We remember the Sixties as being defined by the demand for radical change. Rejecting politicians' fear-mongering and their disastrous war in Vietnam, young people questioned authority and embraced liberation movements. While this era seems singular, in fact it was not. The more things change, the more they stay the same." Changes has costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The evening program also features the 1978 dance Diggity, a delightful romp in which Alex Katz-designed dogs on stage create an obstacle course for the dancers, and Arden Court (1981), an ebullient celebration of movement set to a baroque score.
Family friendly afternoon performance includes Diggity and Cloven Kingdom (1976), in which the choreographer reveals the animal nature lurking just beneath man's sophisticated veneer.
SPECIAL EVENING INVITATION: $250 per person for Preferred Seating for The Premiere of Changes to the music of the Mamas and the Papas, and Post Premiere Party including light supper and refreshments, along with meet greet and sweet retreat with the dancers of Paul Taylor Dance Company at Crissey Farm with this celebrated & talented dance troupe!