Music
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Anything Goes at Alterena Playhouse
Cole Porter's Beloved Chestnut
By: - Mar 29th, 2026Billy Crocker impulsively stows away on a cruise ship crossing to London. Avoiding his boss, who is onboard, and the captain prove a challenge. Pratfalls ensue, but so do amorous couples.
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Jazz at Carnegie Hall with Gerald Clayton
Langree Conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke's
By: - Mar 28th, 2026St. Luke’s Orchestra under the baton of Louis Langree gave a splendid performance of classic American music on March 26. Starting with Charles Ives’ Unanswered Question (on the solo trumpet that begins the work and is answered indefinitely by flutes) Duke Ellington’s iconic works which had their premieres at Carnegie Hall over a half century ago followed. They still feel fresh.
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World Premiere about High School Girls and Music
By: - Mar 20th, 2026Four high schoolers meet in a summer music program for girls in Berkeley, California. Despite differences in performance preference, classical vs. improv, as well as life styles, the four find an ability to mesh their skills and form friendships.
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Mannes Opera Presents a Korngold Premiere
A Silent Serenade Given its Delicious US Debut
By: - Mar 14th, 2026Mannes Opera mounted the United States premiere of Erich Korngold’s The Silent Serenade at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York. Korngold set the standard for film scoring during his decade in Hollywood, and the insights he gained while scoring Robin Hood are evident in this charming blend of Johann Strauss and Jack Warner.
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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The Mount and NY's Grace Church Collaborate
Wharton's Roman Fever a New Opera
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Mount and Grace Church Celebrate Edith Wharton with a One-Night-Only Event on April 9th in NYC – Adapting Wharton: The Operatic Reimagining of Roman Fever
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Tanglewood Adds Popular Artists
Snap Crackle and Pop
By: - Mar 09th, 2026The Tanglewood Popular Artist Series adds three blockbuster shows to this summer’s lineup: Hugh Jackman with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops (August 11, 7 p.m.), Brandi Carlile (August 18, 7 p.m.), and John Fogerty and Steve Winwood (September 6, 7 p.m.).
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A New Sound for Sarasota Opera
Under New General Director Richard Russell
By: - Mar 02nd, 2026Audiences should not expect drastic changes, but subtle shifts, like introducing Gilbert and Sullivan for the first time. “I have many guilty pleasures in my life. One of them is ice cream and one of them is Gilbert and Sullivan,” Russell said in the announcement.
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Salome
West Bay Offers Solid Production of Strass's Classic
By: - Feb 16th, 2026In a psychopathic rage, Herod's adopted daughter, Salome, calls for the beheading of John the Baptist. Tense music underscores the tense drama.
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Weinberg's Passenger at Opera Frankfurt
We Must Not Forget
By: - Feb 10th, 2026Opera Frankfurt gives a commanding and deeply engaging performance of The Passenger by Mieczysaw Weinberg, with a libretto by Alexander Medvedev. Dmitri Shostakovich, a close friend of the composer, read Zofia Posmysz’s novel and immediately saw its potential as an opera. Weinberg agreed and went on to write what he considered the best of his seven operas. The Soviet government suppressed it
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Love is Destiny at Frankfurt Opera
R.R.Schlater Directs Agostino Steffani
By: - Feb 08th, 2026Opera Frankfurt is mounting Amor Vien dal Destino (Love Is Destiny) by the late 17th-century composer Agostino Steffani. An Italian who masterfully blended bel canto lyricism with the German counterpoint tradition, Steffani was a major influence on Handel, who frequently glommed onto his work, sometimes quoting it directly.
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Keith Lockhart and Boston Pops
Spring Schedule
By: - Feb 05th, 2026This season of Pops presents a lineup of today’s most compelling stars from a range of musical traditions, including Jon Batiste, Ray Chen, Jacob Collier, Ben Folds, Pink Martini, Leslie Odom, Jr., and St. Vincent join the Pops for solo performances. Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane perform a special Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennial tribute, accompanied by a jazz ensemble.
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Paul Simon ar Tanglewood
His Berkshires Debut
By: - Feb 03rd, 2026Paul Simon, one of the most celebrated and beloved singer-songwriters of all time, is set to make his Tanglewood debut this summer as part of the festival’s Popular Artist Series. The 16-time GRAMMY® Award winner and two-time Rock & Rock Hall of Fame inductee brings his highly acclaimed “A Quiet Celebration” tour to the Koussevitzky Music Shed on Saturday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m.
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The Hello Girls
Ross Valley Players' Homage to Brave Young Women in WW I
By: - Feb 02nd, 2026Building on true events and characters, the musical tells of the contributions made by a particular class of women in World War I. For vital battlefield communications in France, General Pershing needed personnel with both telephone operator and French language skills. The answer was ultimately over 200 staff members recruited from the U.S. They were all women. They were The Hello Girls.
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Heartbeat Opera Gives Us Manon
Opera Lives in New York
By: - Feb 02nd, 2026Heartbeat Opera is offering a striking new Manon, cut and shaped into a taut hundred minutes, restoring much of the original wit and allowing it to sharpen—rather than soften—the opera’s tragic ending. This one-act chamber adaptation features a new English translation by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue. Directed by Pelsue with meticulous attention to detail and an unerring sense of pace. Conducted by the inimitable Dan Schlosberg, the production is terrific from start to finish
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Tanglewood 2026
Music in the Berkshires
By: - Jan 29th, 2026Tanglewood—the famed music and learning campus and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)—announces details of its 2026 season, opening in late June and continuing to Labor Day weekend.
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Hershey Felder: The Piano & Me
The King of Composer Bios Tells His Own Story
By: - Jan 25th, 2026Hershey Felder's career has been dominated by his creation of one-man plays in which he portrays a composer and performs the composer's works on piano. After Felder's constructing eight well received musical biographies, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents his autobiography set in the same format, with the artist performing works of his own preference and those which were important in his professional development.
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The Cleveland Orchestra Delivers Verdi's Requiem
Welser-Most Conducts at Carnegie Hall
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Franz Welser-Möst arrived at Carnegie Hall on January 20 with the Cleveland Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem. Asmik Grigorian, well known for her dramatic operatic singing, took the soprano solo role. She was joined by Deniz Uzun (mezzo-soprano), Joshua Guerrero (tenor), and Tareq Nazmi (bass), all of whom added vocal pleasures. Lisa Wong directed the chorus.
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Cynthia Erivo at Tanglewood
To Perform with Pops
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning and three-time Academy Award-nominated actress, singer, author, and producer Cynthia Erivo joins the Boston Pops in the 2026 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series schedule.
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Tiergarten, a Cabaret at Prototype
Andrew Ousley Gives Decadent and Provocative Evening
By: - Jan 19th, 2026The Prototype Festival, founded by Beth Morrison and the producers of HERE twenty years ago, has been at the forefront of new opera since its inception. This season, a cabaret evening created by another new-performance impresario, Andrew Ousley, took a special place in Prototype.
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10 by Satch
New Black Eagle Jazz Band
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The New Black Eagle Jazz Band brings faithful recreations of Armstrong’s music to the Berkshires, performing ten of his most notable numbers in this cabaret concert (dancing optional; to some, it will be inevitable), on Friday evening, Feb. 20, 2026, 7:30pm. Part of Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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Met Opera Chamber Ensemble at Weill Hall
Carnegie Hosts Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee
By: - Jan 13th, 2026A chamber ensemble, comprised of members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, performed a Brahms Trio and accompanied premiere singers in Schubert Lieder and a Donizetti duet. The intimate Weill Concert Hall, seating around 250 people, gave the audience a taste of the individual talents that come together in the grand opera house and rarely get a chance to display their solo skills. James Levine cooked up this idea, and it makes for an exciting and inviting evening.
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Irving Berlin White Christmas
At Goodspeed
By: - Dec 19th, 2025The highlight is the dancing. An early number, “The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing,” sets up the expectations with a ballroom number by Phil and Judy. Act two opens with a perhaps over long but spectacular tap number, “I Love a Piano.” It stopped the show.
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Chess Revived on Broadway
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Berkshire Opera Festival
Announces 2026 Season
By: - Dec 02nd, 2025Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) announces its 2026 summer season under the vision of Co-founders Brian Garman (William E. Briggs Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production), and new President and CEO Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. In its 11th year, the company remains unique in the culturally rich Berkshires for producing opera at the highest level.
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