SUMMERSCAPE, LIVE AND IN PERSON Bard SummerScape often celebrates the underappreciated and underperformed. Of Ernest Chausson’s only opera, King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), the late poet John Ashbery (former Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature) wrote, “Arthus, with its story of passion, betrayal, forgiveness, and ultimate resurrection, and its emotionally charged but transparent score . . . is a masterpiece which deserves to be known.” The New York Times called Bard’s “richly costumed and dramatically effective” production, directed by Louisa Proske, “a powerful work for this fraught, polarized moment in American life.”
King Arthur (Norman Garrett, center, as King Arthur), photo by Maria Baranova
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