BERKSHIRE OPERA

"Figaros" come and go with frequency in large and small opera houses over the world every year, but this is, with little doubt, one of the most entertaining. You may regret missing it.

--Berkshire Eagle

Spying through moist vision a neighboring audience member wiping her own eyes is a pretty good indication that something transcendent and timeless has happened onstage. It's all the more wondrous when the prompting is not a mournful overplayed death scene but two young lovers reconciling as they wrestle about on the ground.

--Albany Times Union

To deliver a musically perfect performance of Mozart, while making what is happening on stage feel fresh and familiar, is reflective of the new leadership and thinking at Berkshire Opera. It has proved once again that they are our region's first rate presenter of opera... Bravo! Encore!

--BerkshireFineArts.com

A not to be overlooked star of Gregory Keller's smoothly directed production is Dipu Gupta's wizardly scenic and lighting design. When the audience first takes its seat, the set looks rather spare and bare bones. But that simple looking set is actually quite complex, evolving into a variety of settings, including a magical Midsummer Night's Dream forest and, even more magically, leaving the stage totally bare except for the terrific cast...brava, bravo, stupendo!

--A Curtain Up Berkshire Review

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Conductor: Katheen Kelly

Sets & Lighting: Dipu Gupta

Costumes: Charles Caine

Choreography: Brady Paul

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Figaro: Ryan McKinny

Susanna: Suzanne Ramo

Countess Almaviva: Tamara Wilson

Count Almvaviva: Liam Bonner

Cherubino: Maureen O’Flynn

Dr. Bartolo: Jason Hardy

Marcellina: Fenlon Lamb

Don Basilio / Don Curzio: Jason Ferrante

Barbarina: Alison Trainer

Antonio: Claude Corbeil

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The Colonial Theater

Pittsfield, MA

August 15, 18, 20, 22, 24 2008