December 2018
30th Anniversary of Scrooged!
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Scrooged with Karen Allen! It's time for some nostalgia and holiday laughs as the Berkshire International Film Festival presents a special screening of Scrooged, the dark comedy update of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical television executive whose cutthroat business practices have made him rich and powerful, but left him a coldhearted and lonely cynic. Karen Allen plays his compassionate ex-girlfriend, Claire…
Find out more »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Verdi’s La Traviata
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Radio Deluxe
Co-presented with Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Renowned jazz musicians John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey will record their syndicated American-songbook radio program, “Radio Deluxe,” live at the Mahaiwe. This popular show mixes and matches songs in medleys and sequences that flow like a continuing dialogue about life, relationships, and popular culture itself. The common denominator is a playful sense of humor. The husband-and-wife hosts are masters of off-the-cuff repartee. Featuring special guests Maucha Adnet and Duduka Da Fonseca. "Duduka and Maucha have…
Find out more »January 2019
Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi…
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: La Bayadere
The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, igniting heated passions and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La Bayadere is one of the greatest works in classical ballet history – a story of love, death and vengeful judgment, set in India. Dazzling sets and costumes, with one of the most iconic scenes in ballet, the “Kingdom of the Shades,” illuminate the tragic tale of the temple dancer Nikiya’s…
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (Encore)
For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi…
Find out more »February 2019
Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Bizet’s Carmen
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »June 2019
GALA: Like Father-in-Law, Like Son-in-Law: Antonin Dvořák and Josef Suk
Nationalist composer Dvořák rose to fame in Prague, paving the way for his favorite student and later son-in-law Josef Suk. There was great closeness and spiritual kinship between them, andboth were championed by Brahms (who confessed to envying Dvořák his melodic gifts!). Dvořák’s Rondo and Suk’s Balada and Pisen Lasky love song are rarely performed gems, and the more familiar Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major by Dvořák is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces in the form, along…
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Stay in Nature- Yankee Inn
Celebrate the Season at Naumkeag's Winterlights
A Must See! Norman Rockwell Museum
Dine In Reimagined Blantyre Bistro
Relax at Courtyard Marriott Lenox