Clark Art Airs Production of 'Tosca'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "Tosca" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 1 pm in the latest installment of the 2024–25 season of The Met: Live in HD. 
 
This award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.
 
According to a press release:
 
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar's thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca's revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini's most memorable melodies.
 
In conjunction with the broadcast, the Clark's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a special pop-up exhibition. The sampling of prints, drawings, and photographs is inspired by Rome, the setting of Puccini's melodrama. The pop-up exhibition is free and on view from 11 am to 1 pm on Nov. 24.
 
The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this production, which takes place on Sunday instead of the usual Saturday.
 
Tickets $25 ($22 members, $18 students, $5 children 15 and under). Advance registration encouraged; capacity is limited. To purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events or call the box office at 413 458 0524. No refunds.

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Mass DEP OKs Williamstown Habitat for Humanity Project

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The president of Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity this week expressed satisfaction after the state Department of Environmental Protection ruled on a proposed four-home subdivision off Summer Street.
 
"It's basically exactly what I expected," Keith Davis said of the Nov. 7 decision from the Massachusetts DEP's Western Regional Office in Springfield. "The only real difference is any time we have to make a change, we have to go to the state instead of the local [Conservation Commission].
 
"They were happy with our proposal. … Charlie LaBatt and Guntlow and Associates did a good job with all the issues with wetlands and stormwater management."
 
The state agency needed to weigh in after a Summer Street resident — one of several who were critical of the Habitat for Humanity plan — filed an appeal of the town Con Comm's decision to OK the project on land currently owned by the town's Affordable Housing Trust.
 
"[The DEP] didn't make any changes to the order of conditions [from the Con Comm]," Davis said on Wednesday. "The project meets all the requirements for the Wetlands Protection Act."
 
The only change is that now the DEP will be the one overseeing any changes to the current plan, Davis said.
 
"I honestly don't foresee any changes," he said.
 
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