2013 SEASON PREVIEW OPERA
2013 begins the second decade of the Fisher Center, and the festivities open in April with a monthlong
THEATER
celebration of the performing arts. Join us often to see and hear new, rediscovered, and reimagined works from special guest artists and Bard students and faculty.
THE BACCHAE by Euripides
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
This all-Wagner program
Translated by Ned Moore ’13
includes Lohengrin: Preludes to
NOTES!!! and SWAN!!!
downtown New York theater
The god Dionysus returns to
Prelude and Liebestod; and
scene by storm. LAB visiting artist
Thebes to prove his divinity and
Die Walküre: Act I.
Jack Ferver presents his QWAN
punish the city’s unbelievers.
sosnoff theater
(Quality Without a Name)
This student production is
April 19–20 at 8 pm
Company in the incredibly
presented in partnership with
Preconcert Talk at 7 pm
dramatic parodied readings of
Bard’s Classical Studies Program.
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
two well-loved screenplays, Notes
theater two
from a Scandal and Black Swan.
April 11–13 at 7 pm
Suitable for mature and immature
April 14 at 2 and 7 pm
audiences, 15 years and older.
Tickets: $15 general admission;
Presented in partnership with
free to Bard students
of the Bard College Dance
S¯o Percussion and The Bard
theater two
Tickets: $20; $5 for the Bard
College Conservatory of Music
April 26–27 at 7:30 pm
community
Percussion Program present
April 28 at 2 and 7:30 pm
their second annual spring
Tickets: $15 general admission;
live arts bard
concert at the Fisher Center.
free to Bard students
AN EVENING WITH NEIL GAIMAN AND AMANDA PALMER
S¯o Percussion will perform with
the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/performance artist Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the
and
choreography by the faculty
April 3 at 7 pm
word, songs, stories, chats with
THE 24TH BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL Stravinsky and His World
A dynamic evening of
sosnoff theater stage right
An intimate night of spoken
SPIEGELTENT
THE 2013 FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
¯ PERCUSSION STUDENT SO CONCERT
Studies.
FILM
Acts I and III; Tristan und Isolde:
startling works that took the
Bard’s Center for Curatorial
MUSIC
Program, performed by students in the program.
Conservatory students in a program that includes recent
GUSTAV MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 2
masterworks, new music for percussion groups, and works
Members of the American
by composers from the Bard
Symphony Orchestra, Bard College
community.
Conservatory Orchestra, and
sosnoff theater
Longy Conservatory Orchestra
April 12 at 8 pm
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Tickets: $15 general admission;
Heather Buck, soprano
free to Bard students
Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano
Grand Theft Orchestra).
Mahler’s Second Symphony
sosnoff theater
projects a powerful narrative of
April 6 at 8 pm
life triumphant over death.
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
sosnoff theater April 26–27 at 8 pm Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
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A double bill of sexy, scary, and
DANCE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PO Box 5000 Annandale-0n-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
JACK FERVER AND QWAN COMPANY
bard theater & performance program
Bard College
live arts bard
RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
BARDSUMMERSCAPE
Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Bard College
THE RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
SEASON PREVIEW
BARDSUMMERSCAPE 2013
Bard SummerScape 2013 presents eight inspired weeks of opera, music,
dance/theater
opera
the 24th season
theater, dance, film, and cabaret. The hub of these offerings is the 24th
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY AND SITI COMPANY
ORESTEIA
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
by Sergey Taneyev
STRAVINSKY AND HIS WORLD
STRAVINSKY’S LEGACY AND RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉ CINEMA
August 9–11
The SummerScape 2013 film festival—Stravinsky’s
A Rite
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
Becoming Stravinsky: From St. Petersburg to Paris
Legacy and Russian Émigré Cinema—will be in
annual Bard Music Festival, this year examining the life, work, and cultural milieu of the 20th-century Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. From ballet to chamber works, from sacred music to symphonies, the festival will explore Stravinsky’s long and illustrious career, along with many works by
American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Russian composer Sergey Taneyev’s extraordinary
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) came of age in
but neglected opera conveys the searing drama
imperial St. Petersburg—a city where musical life
of Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy about the cursed
was greatly influenced by his teacher, Nikolai
House of Atreus, from Agamemnon’s fateful
Rimsky-Korsakov, and which boasted a gloried
return from Troy to the trial of his son Orestes.
Russian tradition arising out of the 19th century.
Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to
Weekend One will trace Stravinsky’s path from
SummerScape after his successes in previous
his early Russian years to his first great successes
seasons with Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots,
in Paris writing for Sergey Diaghilev’s legendary
Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Chabrier’s Le roi
Ballets Russes, most notably the scandalous
malgré lui. Sung in the original Russian.
premiere of The Rite of Spring. Alongside works
sosnoff theater
by Stravinsky, such as his Symphonies of Wind
July 26 and August 2 at 7 pm
Instruments, Concerto for Two Pianos, and
July 28, 31, and August 4 at 3 pm
Les Noces, the concerts will present works by
World Premiere Adaptation
Tickets: $30, 60, 70, 90
Maximilian Steinberg, Claude Debussy, Maurice
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
Opera Talk, July 28 at 1 pm: free
Ravel, and Erik Satie, among many others.
Special support for this program is provided by
August 16–18
Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.
Stravinsky Reinvented: From Paris to Los Angeles
his contemporaries. Other highlights of the season include Sergey
Choreographer Bill T. Jones and theater director
Taneyev’s Oresteia, an opera based on Aeschylus’ tragic Greek trilogy; a
Anne Bogart ’74 join forces to create a new work
collaboration by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company
Spring. Two of America’s leading dance and theater
celebrating Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring; a theatrical adaptation of
companies unite to explore the impact of one of the
celebrating the centennial of Stravinsky’s The Rite of
20th century’s most explosive artistic moments.
Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita; an adventurous film
sosnoff theater
festival; and the return of cabaret at the Spiegeltent. It all adds up to a
July 6 at 8 pm and July 7 at 3 pm Tickets: $25, 40, 45, 55
festival like no other—SummerScape 2013. theater
Adapted and directed by János Szász after the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
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serialism. The weekend will include a close look
beloved novel—at once a pungent political satire, a
previews July 11 and 12 at 7:30 pm Tickets: $30 performances July 13 and 18–20 at 7:30 pm
the music he composed in the United States,
and a shift in musical style from neoclassicism to
theatrical vision to this adaptation of Bulgakov's
theater two
creative output during the interwar years and
by an intense investigation of new trends in music
film and stage director János Szász applies his opulent
Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).
The second weekend will explore Stravinsky’s
where he settled in 1939. This period was marked
and plunges the city into pandemonium. Hungarian
magical fantasy, and an unforgettable love story.
at music he encountered in this new environment,
“Bard SummerScape and Bard Music Festival always unearth piles of buried treasure.” —The New Yorker
as well as at compositions that show Stravinsky’s
Tickets: $45
two parts: a retrospective of Russian exile filmmaking in France (including rare works produced by the legendary Albatros studio), and a series of more contemporary films by such directors as Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol.
THE SPIEGELTENT Bard’s Belgian “Mirror Tent” is a lavish and otherworldly stage for cabaret, music, and theater. Spend a summer evening in the intimate company of world-class artists, or just relax with fine food, wine, and beer from the Hudson Valley.
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powerful influence on his contemporaries and on a younger generation of composers.
The 2013 SummerScape season and the 24th Bard Music Festival are made possible in part through the
Bard Music Festival weekends include orchestral
generous support of the Board of The Richard B. Fisher
concerts by the American Symphony Orchestra,
Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the
chamber and choral music performances, panel
Board of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of
discussions, and special events.
the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National
July 14, 17, 20, and 21 at 3 pm above The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Photo: ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto. cover Emmanuel Chabrier’s The King in Spite of Himself, SummerScape 2012. Photo: ©Cory Weaver.
FILM FESTIVAL
Endowment for the Arts and the New York State
Tickets: $25 to $75
Council on the Arts.