Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) has announced “Arias & Aperitifs: Music, Merriment, and Summer Splendor,” the company’s annual summer gala, taking place June 28, 2026 at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. The garden party-style event will feature a performance by bass Stefan Egerstrom, who makes his Berkshire Opera Festival debut this summer in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The bass has {…}

Berkshire Opera Festival will inaugurate its new Resident Artist Program with a fully staged production of André Grétry’s “Zémire et Azor.” The rarely performed 18th-century retelling of the Beauty and the Beast tale will take the stage on July 31 and August 2 at PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance in Chatham, New York. The production will be conducted by BOF {…}

Berkshire Opera Festival will present Carlisle Floyd’s monodrama “Flower and Hawk” on Saturday, May 2 at Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts. Soprano Ashley Marie Robillard, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and recipient of awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and Opera Index, takes on the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine. She is {…}

The Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) will present “Once Upon an Opera,” a free interactive family concert, on April 12 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The one-hour program features soprano Juliet Schlefer, mezzo-soprano Abbegael Greene and tenor Maximillian Jansen in a selection of well-known operatic melodies by Gounod, Verdi, Mozart and Offenbach. The script is by {…}

Berkshire Opera Festival has announced the artists selected for its inaugural Resident Artist Program, launching in summer 2026. The first cohort of BOF Resident Artists includes soprano Ethel Trujillo, mezzo-soprano Christina Grohowski, tenor Scott Rubén La Marca, baritone Will (June Young) Kim, and pianist Dakota Perez. The artists were selected through a national audition process from a pool of nearly {…}

Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) has announced its third annual Community Sing-Along, a free event open to singers of all experience levels. The program, which is set to take place on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at 2 p.m., will be led by BOF Chorus Master Luca Antonucci. The Sing-Along features choruses by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, with music drawn from {…}

Berkshire Opera Festival has announced the launch of its Resident Artist Program for the summer of 2026. The eight-week paid residency will feature four singers: a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, a tenor, and a baritone, who will become part of an intensive training and performance regimen. “This is an extremely exciting moment for Berkshire Opera Festival’s growth,” said William E. Briggs {…}