18 Aug 2008

Berkshire's 'Figaro' opera a treat

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=712590&category=ARTS

By JOSEPH DALTON [timesunion.com, 17 August 2008]

PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- 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.