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Bard SummerScape & Music Festival Announces 2026 Season

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The Bard SummerScape and Music Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal selections. Opera/SummerScape Courtney Bryan and Gideon Lester’s “Suddenly Last Summer” will make its world premiere in a production by Daniel Fish. Nathan Koci conducts the work with a cast that includes Mikaela Bennett as Catharine Holly and Tina Benko as Mrs. Venable. Performance Dates: {…}
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2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger

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Bard SummerScape is set to kick off on July 8 and run through August 22. As part of SummerScape, the 31st Annual Bard Music Festival will celebrate the life and works of one of the most important women in music history, Nadia Boulanger  (1878 – 1979). The festival will fete the Parisian polymath who taught composition to students such as {…}
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Fisher Center LAB at Bard College to Present ‘Suddenly Last Summer’

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Fisher Center LAB at Bard College will present the world premiere of composer Courtney Bryan’s “Suddenly Last Summer” as part of SummerScape 2026. The chamber opera, featuring a libretto by Fisher Center Artistic Director Gideon Lester and Tony-nominated director Daniel Fish, runs from June 25 through July 19 at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater. The production is co-produced by Opera Philadelphia. {…}
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Bard’s Summerscape Festival 2025 Review: Dalibor

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Many who visit OperaWire regularly have their various interests in what one might call, operatic “rarities”–works that have achieved, to an extent, legendary status despite being seldom staged. As an avid lover of Hector Berlioz’s archetypal romantic career, I devoured both the Barzun and Cairns biographies of the composer more than once. And such a rarity mentioned was Spontini’s “La {…}
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Bard Summerscape Announces 2025 Season

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(Credit: Peter Aaron ’68/Esto) The Fisher Center at Bard has announced the SummerScape 2025 which will be held between June 27 – August 17, 2025. Here is a look at the operatic and vocal performances for the season. Opera Smetana’s “Dalibor” will be performed in a new production by Jean-Romain Vesperini. The American Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Leon Botstein and {…}
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Bard Summerscape 2024 Spotlights Berlioz & His Contemporaries

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Bard Summerscape has announced its 2024 festival, which will center on Hector Berlioz and his world. Here is a rundown of vocal performances. The company will present Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophète” in a production by Christian Räth and conducted by Leon Botstein. The opera will star Robert Watson, Jennifer Feinstein, and Amina Edris. Performance Date: July 26 – August 4, 2024 As {…}
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Updates on Summer Festivals Canceled Due to Coronavirus Outbreak

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***We will update this article as more cancellations are announced. The coronavirus has affected a number of summer festivals. After the cancellation of the Grange Park Opera and the delay of the Glyndebourne Festival, many festivals are weighing in on the summer. The Buxton International Festival has canceled its summer festival which was scheduled for July 2 – 18, 2021. {…}

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