Summer Performances at Bard

 

SummerScape Opera

Opera at Bard

July 27 – August 5

“Bard’s annual opera has become an indispensable part of the summer operatic landscape.” —Musical America

Don’t miss SummerScape’s rare new American production of Anton Rubinstein’s Demon, a “supernatural melodrama” (New Yorker) featuring an all-Russian principal cast.

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SummerScape Dance

Four Quartets

July 6–8

“At the still point, there the dance is.” ―T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Learn more about the pilgrimage taken by Fisher Center Artistic Director for Dance and Theater Gideon Lester and choreographer Pam Tanowitz that inspired the SummerScape 2018 dance production—a major new work commissioned for the 75th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.

 

Bard Music Festival

Program One: Inventing Russian Music: The Mighty Five

August 10

Anchored by The Orchestra Now, this program integrates orchestral, solo, and chamber works to introduce the work of the Mighty Five and their musical godfather, Mikhail Glinka. Program One features Glinka’s Kamarinskaya—Russia’s first important orchestral work—which Tchaikovsky so eloquently described as “the acorn from which the oak of Russian symphonic music grew.”

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Spiegeltent Cabaret

Chita: A Legendary Celebration

July 28 at 7 & 9:30 pm

Congratulations to Broadway icon Chita Rivera! On June 10, Rivera will be honored with a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, recognizing her legendary career on the Great White Way and beyond.
On July 28, Chita graces the Spiegeltent with two very special, intimate performances.

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