Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA
2025
The Met: Live in HD—Andrea Chénier
Saturday, December 13, 2025
1 pm
(Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczala as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora, Beczala reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.
Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.)
The Met: Live in HD—The Magic Flute (Encore)
Saturday, December 27, 2025
1 pm
(A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart’s heartwarming fairy tale takes the stage in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King. Featuring some of opera’s most popular melodies and brought to life with colorful sets and costumes and dazzling puppetry, it’s perfect for audiences of all ages.
Please note: The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this) production.
A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart’s heartwarming fairy tale takes the stage in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King. Featuring some of opera’s most popular melodies and brought to life with colorful sets and costumes and dazzling puppetry, it’s perfect for audiences of all ages.
Please note: The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this production.
2026
1/11, 1 PM, Manton enter, THE MET: LIVE IN HD—"I
PURITANI" (PRERECORDED)
(In the first new Metropolitan Opera staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s
masterpiece in fifty years, soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence
Brownlee play lovers who are torn apart by political rifts )
1/18, 3 PM–I/O FEST 2026: "DITHER", Michael Conforti Pavilion, Williams College Department of Music and I/O Fest 2026 welcome
the intrepid electric guitar quartet Dither to the Clark for a program
featuring selections from The Expanding Universe, the iconic 1979 album
by the electronic composer and computer-music pioneer Laurie Spiegel.
In 1977, one Spiegel composition, Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds, was
included on “The Sounds of Earth,” an LP compilation that accompanied
the Voyager spacecraft as it traversed the solar system. Dither captains
its concert voyage of The Expanding Universe with four electric guitars
through a galaxy of live effects.
2/28, 1PM, Manton Center, The Met Live in HD, "ARABELLA" (Prerecorded)
(The glamour and enchantment of nineteenth-century Vienna come to life
in a sumptuous production of Richard Strauss’s elegant romance with
soprano Rachel Willis-Sørenson as a young noblewoman in search of love
on her own terms and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the dashing
count who sweeps her off her feet.)
