Berkshire’s ‘Figaro’ opera a treat

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.