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A woman dressed in mistrel's clothing reclines against a man in a leather doublet on stage

Dalibor at Bard SummerScape Reviewed in Multiple Publications

“A wonderful production by Jean-Romain Vesperini, with an ingenious set design by Bruno de Lavenere, a fine cast and the American Symphony Orchestra in impeccable form under Leon Botstein.”

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Opening August 8, Bard Music Festival Explores Life and Times of Foremost 20th-Century Czech Composer in “Martinů and His World”

In eleven themed concert programs, the festival’s 35th season examines Bohuslav Martinů, the 20th century’s foremost Czech composer.

Opening on Friday, July 25 at Bard SummerScape: First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera <em>Dalibor</em>, Now Starring John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan

Opening on Friday, July 25 at Bard SummerScape: First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera Dalibor, Now Starring John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan

Starting on Friday, July 25 at the 2025 Bard SummerScape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first fully staged American production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.

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CCS Exhibition Stan Douglas: Ghostlight Featured in the New York Times

“The show at Bard—organized and cunningly paced by Lauren Cornell, the artistic director of the college’s Center for Curatorial Studies—captures Douglas’s commitment to art as a practice of reconstitution."

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Bard Summerscape 2025

June 27–August 17
“A hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary hits.”—New York Times
 
Bard SummerScape returns with opera, dance, Spiegeltent, and the 35th Bard Music Festival, Martinů and His World.

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