Evan Berkowitz

“No Cowards in Our Band,” will be performed, 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at Hudson Hall, featuring actor Masud Olufani as Douglass.

“The McAdo” transports the action — a freewheeling plot of forbidden romance and macabre but toothless consequences — from a pastiche Japan to the highlands of Scotland.

The Berkshire Opera Festival, Berkshire County Historical Society and Tanglewood Learning Institute are coming together for evening of arias and readings from both Billy Budds to toast the novella’s 100th

Berkshire Opera Festival hopes to channel that starkness into a new production of Charles Gounod’s 1859 opera “Faust” that will embrace “high minimalism” for three shows, 1 p.m. Aug. 24;

On Aug. 18, “La damnation de Faust” will be the grand finale of this year’s Bard Music Festival.

“Rome is Falling,” will receive a workshop performance, 4 p.m. Aug. 10, at Clark Art Institute.

It's a clear statement on what opera can transform into in the hands of a truly original thinker and a welcoming, consummate professional who knows from decades of experience what

Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular.

An opera it was not, but in the world premiere of “mad scramble for crumbs,” Opera Saratoga presented a surrealist work of vocal art worth seeing, not only because it

If Stuart was the shimmering diamond, then the rough was a disappointing orchestra.