Author Archives: Florindo Troncelliti

Dimitrij runs for five performances between July 28 and August 6, with an Opera Talk, free and open to the public, before the matinée on July 30. Once again, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra present an obscure operatic masterpiece … Continue reading →

Parisian culture, Polish politics, and the piano are the focus of this summer’s annual Bard SummerScape festival, taking place between June 30 and August 20 in the Frank Gehry-​​​​designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues … Continue reading →

Summerscape 2016 arrives with a full spectrum of the performing arts. The highly anticipated and much beloved festival returns on July 1 to the verdant setting of the Bard College campus. SummerScape 2016 features seven weeks of opera, instrumental music, dance, film … Continue reading →

Reviving important but neglected operas has long been central to Bard SummerScape’s mission, This year’s offering is a fully staged production if Iris, a darkly impressionistic forerunner of Madama Butterfly by Pietro Mascagni. Mascagni’s three-​​​​act opera, Iris, debuted on November 22, 1898 … Continue reading →

There is a natural process by which the present selects from the past only what is good, as in a filter all the impurities are done away with and only the pure water gets through.    —Carlos Chavez 1951 The Bard Music Festival … Continue reading →