As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical ...
Le prophète is a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, a key figure of the French grand opera tradition. The production will run from July 26 to August 4, 2024, as part of the Bard SummerScape festival at ...
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 ...
Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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 ...
In its ninth season, BOF will present Charles Gounod’s 1859 Mephistophelian tour-de-force “Faust,” which chronicles its title character’s deal with the devil for youth and love. Sun-Ly Pierce, the ...