Saturday, March 3, 2012

ELIXIR FOR SCHOLA CANTORUM POETS SPONSOR POETS BYE BYE, MIMI, BYE BYE.(Show)

The chorus line at Berkshire Opera this summer will be local talent.

The St. Cecilia Orchestra, of course, returns for its second season as pit band for Berkshire Opera at Cranwell Opera House in Lenox.

Now Benjamin Van Wye's Schola Cantorum, unhooked from Bethesda Epsicopal Church in Saratoga Springs this spring when rector Thomas Parke fired Van Wye after an ongoing dispute about wages and duties at the church, is at Berkshire Opera for the first time. The 20-voice choir decided to stay together and performed expertly in this spring's concert of Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" in Spa State Park's Little Theatre.

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