The Fisher Center at Bard and its renowned annual Bard Summerscape festival both celebrate their 20th anniversaries this year. "A hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure" (New York Times), ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — With magnificent sets, a sobering world, and an orchestra and chorus that were on-form and then some, Bard College’s SummerScape created a “Le Prophète” that was compelling ...

But for 2024, Botstein turned to a very famous title—Le Prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer, a composer whose works for decades were among opera’s most performed but whose presence on world stages since the ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A lesson with Véronique Firkusny begins without music. “We do it one-on-one our first meeting, without a piano,” she said. “If they’ve done some preparation and they feel ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Bard College’s SummerScape will celebrate its 20th anniversary when it returns with seven weeks of music, opera, music-theater and Spiegeltent events June 23-Aug.12.

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — A demagogue and religious fanatics impose a theocracy. What sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines 21st century story was portrayed by Giacomo Meyerbeer 175 years ago ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — A demagogue ...