Clark Art Institute to Air Metropolitan Opera's "Salome"

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of "Salome" on Saturday, May 17, at 1 p.m.

The screening is part of the 2024–25 season of The Met: Live in HD and will take place in the auditorium located in the Manton Research Center.

The broadcast will feature the live performance, including backstage interviews and commentary. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct Strauss’s opera, with Claus Guth directing a new production set in the Victorian era. The cast includes South African soprano Elza van den Heever as Salome, Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as Jochanaan, German tenor Gerhard Siegel as King Herod, American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as Herodias, and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Tickets are priced at $25 ($22 for members, $18 for students, and $5 for children 15 and under). Advance registration is encouraged due to limited capacity. Tickets can be purchased at clarkart.edu/events or by calling the box office at 413 458 0524. Tickets are nonrefundable.

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Discrimination Against Muslim Americans Persists 25 Years After 9/11

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:00AM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of Muslim Americans were among people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Untold numbers of Muslim Americans have suffered countless acts of discrimination in their aftermath.

"Of course, you'll find several accounts of Muslims from all over the U.S. describing how they went from the unknown kids in the school to being stereotyped or ridiculed for their Muslim names," Sidra Mahmood recalled recently. "However, many Americans forget that the victims of 9/11 were also Muslim Americans.

"I can't forget the time when a classmate broke down in sobs when 9/11 came up in our classroom at the Islamic seminary I went to in Texas, because her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her, died on 9/11."

Today, Mahmood is a chaplain at Williams College. In 2001, she was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, when terrorists forced two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and another plane into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. A third plane, which terrorists hoped to crash into a D.C. landmark, was brought down in western Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

The attacks, which ultimately claimed 2,976 lives, horrified people around the world, including in Mahmood's native land.

"I remember being aghast like anyone who witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers in real time," she said. "However, even as a child, fear gripped me about the possibility of war, especially once we learned that Afghanistan, right adjacent to Pakistan, would be attacked by the U.S. My mother had told me about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan when she remembered hiding in the dark after bomb sirens would go off in Punjab after intentional blackouts.

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