Clark Art Airs Met Production of 'Turandot'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, May 7 at 12:55 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens The Met: Live in HD's broadcast of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot." 
 
The Met: Live in HD is an award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts that feature the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary.
 
Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska stars in the title role of the cold-hearted princess. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the prince determined to win Turandot's love, alongside soprano Michelle Bradley as the devoted servant Liù and bass Ferruccio Furlanetto as the blind king Timur. Marco Armiliato conducts Puccini's stirring opera, which takes the stage in the company's dazzling, ever-popular production by Franco Zeffirelli.
 
Tickets are $25 ($22 for members; $18 for students with valid ID; $7 for children 10 and under). To purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu or call the box office at 413 458 0524.
 
In the hour before the broadcast, the Clark's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts an 11 am Print Room Pop-up event presenting a sampling of prints, drawings, and photographs inspired by the nocturnal plot of Turandot. The event is free and open to the public, but limited to fifteen visitors on a first-come basis. Please enter through the Manton Research Center.
 
The next performance of The Met: Live in HD is Lucia di Lammermoor, airing Saturday, May 21 at 12:55 pm

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Williamstown Charter Review Panel OKs Fix to Address 'Separation of Powers' Concern

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Charter Review Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to endorse an amended version of the compliance provision it drafted to be added to the Town Charter.
 
The committee accepted language designed to meet concerns raised by the Planning Board about separation of powers under the charter.
 
The committee's original compliance language — Article 32 on the annual town meeting warrant — would have made the Select Board responsible for determining a remedy if any other town board or committee violated the charter.
 
The Planning Board objected to that notion, pointing out that it would give one elected body in town some authority over another.
 
On Wednesday, Charter Review Committee co-Chairs Andrew Hogeland and Jeffrey Johnson, both members of the Select Board, brought their colleagues amended language that, in essence, gives authority to enforce charter compliance by a board to its appointing authority.
 
For example, the Select Board would have authority to determine a remedy if, say, the Community Preservation Committee somehow violated the charter. And the voters, who elect the Planning Board, would have ultimate say if that body violates the charter.
 
In reality, the charter says very little about what town boards and committees — other than the Select Board — can or cannot do, and the powers of bodies like the Planning Board are regulated by state law.
 
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