Berkshire County is hosting a variety of events the spring weekend including festivals, musical performances, comedy nights, and more. Editors Pick: Annual Baby Animals.
Friday evening in the Koussevitsky Shed at Tanglewood, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina presented a massive, fascinating, thrilling and profound program juxtaposing Shostakovich at two very different moments of his career with Dvořák’s magnificent Violin Concerto and Borodin’s fierce Polovtsian
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here.
2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jean-Claude Casadesus conducts the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris in a Franco-German program of Debussy’s
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Ravel’s
Pavane pour une infante défunte Schumann’s Piano Concerto with soloist David Kadouch, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. View here. LIVE