SECRETS OF THE SKY & SEA will be performed on Thursday, July 24, 2008; 8pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Berkshire Opera leaps out of the box for this presentation, an extraordinary cultural collaborative featuring music by composers ranging from Reynaldo Hahn, W.A. Mozart, and Giacomo Puccini to Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill and Irving Berlin. The program traces the universal appeal and immediacy of water and the heavens in an imaginative and entertaining survey of childlike dreams, romantic desires, and untold mysteries. Guests of Brook Farm Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts will enjoy this  unique performance.

Brook Farm Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, is close to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.  This wonderfully restored theater, one of the Berkshires’ best attractions, has announced its program for May through December, and there’s something for everyone. Judy Collins will be performing June 1st, then there’s Renee Fleming, more classical music, Paul Taylor Dance Co., and some summer special screenings, like “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!,” and “The Graduate.” Also not to be missed is the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series — Saturday afternoon simulcasts from the Met. So go to “Area Attractions” on our homepage and then click on “Mahaiwe” for the entire program.