GREAT BARRINGTON — Maureen O’Flynn learns fast. “I still have a good memory,” said O’Flynn, the Stockbridge native who took her sought-after soprano voice from the birth of the Berkshire Opera Company ...

I usually recommend Carmen as the perfect first opera. Its melodies have been used in popular culture so much so that they are familiar to most of us. But Verdi’s La Traviata may be an even more ...