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Press Releases
Commissioning Partners Anounced for Bard's Fisher Center and Mark Morris Dance Group's Historic Production of the Original Version of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet
January 01, 2008
Bard's Fisher Center and the Mark Morris Dance Group Announce the Historic World Premiere of the Original Version of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet
January 06, 2008
The Fisher Center Presents the American Symphony Orchestra Concerts on February 1 and 2
February 01, 2008
Leon Botstein Conducts the Conservatory Orchestra at the Fisher Center on March 1
March 01, 2008
Bard Theater Presents the Play Terrorism from March 4 to 8
March 04, 2008
Bard Conservatory's Graduate Program in Vocal Arts Presents Two One-Act Operas at the Fisher Center
March 21, 2008
Dramatic Reading of Sophocles' Tragedy Philoctetes On March 22
March 22, 2008
Bard Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Internationally Acclaimed Novel Things Fall Apart
April 11, 2008
Bard's Fisher Center Presents American Symphony Orchestra Concerts in the Acoustically Superb Sosnoff Theater on April 25 and 26
April 25, 2008
Bard's Music Program Presents Vocal Concert on Tuesday, May 6, at the Fisher Center
May 06, 2008
Bard Conservatory Orchestra Class Offers a Public Performance at the Fisher Center on May 14
May 14, 2008
Bard SummerScape 2008 Season Announcement
July 04, 2008
Bard SummerScape 2008 Opens on July 4 with the Historic World Premiere of Prokofiev's Original Version of His Ballet Romeo & Juliet, with Choreography by Mark Morris
July 04, 2008
Bard’s Spiegeltent is Back by Popular Demand for Its Third Colorful Season at SummerScape 2008, July 5–August 17
July 05, 2008
Bard SummerScape Produces Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" with Erica Schmidt's New Staging and Peter Dinklage in the Title Role, July 9-20
July 09, 2008
Bard SummerScape Continues its Trailblazing Productions of Rare Operas with Double Bill of Sumptuous Stage Works By Polish Composer Karol Szymanowski Opening July 25
July 25, 2008
08/08 New Albion at SummerScape: A Festival within a Festival
August 01, 2008
Bard SummerScape Presents Of Thee I Sing, the Gershwin’s Delightful Political Satire, a Red-White-and-Blue-Blooded American Romp in Bard’s Celebration of “Prokofiev and His World”
August 01, 2008
19th Annual Bard Music Festival "Prokofiev and His World"
August 08, 2008
RAPTURE: Site-Specific Dance by Noémie Lafrance at the Fisher Center
August 14, 2008
American Ballet Theatre to Give Rare Hudson Valley Performance at Bard College on October 17 and 18
September 04, 2008
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Performs with Guest Conductor Guillermo Figueroa in Sosnoff Theater on Sunday, December 7
December 07, 2008
The 20th Annual Bard Music Festival: Wagner and His World
June 19, 2009
Bard's Popular Spiegeltent Returns for SummerScape 2009
June 19, 2009
2009 Bard SummerScape Festival Presents Seldom-Heard Opera and Oratorio – Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots and Mendelssohn’s St. Paul – During Exploration of “Wagner and His World"
June 20, 2009
Bard SummerScape 2009 Presents Oresteia– Three Classic Plays by Aeschylus, July 15—August 2
June 21, 2009
Bard SummerScape 2009 Opens on July 9
With Dance – Lucinda Childs's Seminal Collaboration
With Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt
June 22, 2009
Bard SummerScape 2009 Season Announcement: Seven-Week Festival Opens July 9, Exploring Life and Times of Richard Wagner through Opera, Music, Theater, Dance, Film, and the Spiegeltent
June 23, 2009
Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Presents American Ballet Theatre in Three World Premieres
September 09, 2009
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents "Music Alive!" on Sunday, September 20th
September 09, 2009
Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and New Albion Records Present "A Weekend with Terry Riley," October 9–10
September 17, 2009
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Presents the Opening Concert in the 2009–10 American Symphony Orchestra Series
September 28, 2009
The Fisher Center Presents The Bard Orchestra in Concert, Wednesday October 14
October 06, 2009
Bard College Hosts Symposium on Avant-Garde Composer and Artist John Cage, October 30–November 1
October 12, 2009
Celebrated Kenyan Singer-Songwriter Eric Wainaina to Perform His Popular Musical Mo Faya! in Bard’s Fisher Center on Friday, October 23
October 23, 2009
The American Symphony Orchestra Performs at Bard's Fisher Center on Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6
January 11, 2010
Opera Triple Bill to be Presented by the Bard College Conservatory of Music's Vocal Arts Program
January 27, 2010
Bard SummerScape Seven-Week Festival Opens on July 8, Exploring Life and Times of Alban Berg Through Music, Opera, Theater, Dance, Film, and the Spiegeltent
February 11, 2010
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents "Conservatory Sundays: Chamber Music"
March 14, 2010
The Fisher Center Presents the American Symphony Orchestra April 23 & 24
March 17, 2010
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in Concert with Dawn Upshaw and Melvin Chen at the Fisher Center, April 4
March 19, 2010
Bard Conservatory of Music Presents So Percussion at the Fisher Center, April 18
March 23, 2010
Bard College Dance Presents Two Programs of New and Historical Works in the Fisher Center, April 29 to May 2
March 30, 2010
The Bard Orchestra Performs in the Sosnoff Theater, Thursday, April 15
April 08, 2010
Bard SummerScape Presents the 21st Annual Bard Music Festival: “Berg and His World”
April 22, 2010
2010 Bard SummerScape Festival Enriches Exploration of “Berg and His World” with First U.S. Staging of Franz Schreker’s Opera “The Distant Sound” (July 30 – August 6) and “The Chocolate Soldier” (August 5 – 15)
May 10, 2010
Trisha Brown Dance Company Opens Bard SummerScape 2010 on July 8
May 21, 2010
Bard SummerScape Presents Judgment Day: Ödön von Horváth’s “Gripping Moral Fable” of Emergent Nazism and Ordinary People (July 14–25)
June 07, 2010
Bard’s Beloved Spiegeltent Returns for SummerScape 2010
June 25, 2010
Bard Spiegeltent Thursday Night Live Series Presents American Premiere of African Singer Khaïra Arby and Her Bard
July 26, 2010
21st Annual Bard Music Festival “Berg and His World” Opens Friday, August 13 with “Alban Berg: The Path of Expressive Intensity”
July 28, 2010
The Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Present "Music Alive! with a Touch of Klezmer, Latin, and Blues" on Sunday, October 3
September 06, 2010
The Fisher Center Presents the American Symphony Orchestra Series "Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Sibelius"
September 30, 2010
The Fisher Center and New Albion Records Present "An Evening With John Zorn," Friday, November 12
October 15, 2010
The Bard Dance Program and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Present Two Special Events with Bill T. Jones
November 17, 2010
Natalie Merchant Performs in Concert with The Bard College Conservatory of Music Orchestra on Saturday, March 5
January 19, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents the American Symphony Orchestra's Fifth Beethoven Series Program
January 19, 2011
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents the "Conservatory Sundays" Series at the Fisher Center
February 07, 2011
Bard SummerScape 2011 Explores Life and Times of Jean Sibelius with Seven-Week Arts Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley, July 7 – August 21, 2011
February 07, 2011
CANCELLED: Bard's Fisher Center Presents the Longy Conservatory Orchestra on Friday, April 1
March 14, 2011
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents "Conservatory Sundays: Chamber Music" in the Sosnoff Theater on April 3
March 14, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents "A Weekend of Brahms"
March 25, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents the Bard Orchestra's Spring Concert on Tuesday, April 26
April 11, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents Dawn Upshaw and Friends in Concert, Sunday May 15
April 28, 2011
In-Depth Survey of Music by Finnish Symphonist Jean Sibelius and His Contemporaries (Aug 12–14; Aug 19–21) Is Centerpiece of Seven-Week 2011 Bard SummerScape Festival
April 28, 2011
2011 Bard SummerScape Festival Enriches Exploration of “Sibelius and His World” with NY’s First Fully-Staged Production of Richard Strauss’s Opera Die Liebe der Danae (July 29 – Aug 7) and New Production of Noël Cowards’s Operetta Bitter Sweet (Aug 4 – 14)
April 29, 2011
Tero Saarinen Company Opens Bard SummerScape 2011 with
Dance Triple Bill on July 7
May 10, 2011
Bard SummerScape 2011 Presents The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen’s Tragicomic Masterpiece (July 13–24)
June 14, 2011
First Fully-Staged New York Production of Richard Strauss’s Opera Die Liebe der Danae Opens Friday, July 29 at Bard SummerScape
July 19, 2011
Bard’s Fisher Center Presents Richly Programmed Fall Season of Music, Dance, and Theater
August 05, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, September 9–11
August 15, 2011
So Percussion Quartet Kicks Off Conservatory Sunday Concert Series September 18th
August 26, 2011
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents the "Conservatory Sundays" Concert Series
September 27, 2011
New Albion Records and The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Present "The Music of Lou Harrison"
October 15, 2011
The Fisher Center Presents American Ballet Theatre in a Weekend of Performances
November 04, 2011
Rare Performance of Theatrical Adaptation of John Cage's James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, November 11 and 12
November 11, 2011
Conservatory Concerto Competition Finals in the Sosnoff Theater on Sunday, November 20
November 20, 2011
The Conservatory Orchestra Performs with Pianist Jeremy Denk at the Fisher Center on Sunday, December 4
December 04, 2011
Bard College Names Noted Performing Arts Curator and Dramaturg Gideon Lester Director of Theater Programs and Professor of Theater
December 12, 2011
Bard SummerScape 2012 Presents Emmy & Golden Globe Award-Winner Peter Dinklage in All-Male Production of The Imaginary Invalid, Molière’s Final Comedy of Manners (July 13–22)
May 29, 2012
Chabrier’s Opera The King In Spite of Himself Opens at Bard SummerScape 2012 on Friday, July 27; Bard Offers Concert Performance of Saint-Saëns’s Henry VIII (August 19)
July 18, 2012
The Fisher Center Presents Grammy Award-Winning Band The Carolina Chocolate Drops in Concert, September 15
August 01, 2012
The Fisher Center Presents Richly Programmed Fall Season of Music, Dance, and Theater
August 06, 2012
Bard College Launches “Live Arts Bard,” A Dynamic Residency and Commissioning Program for the Performing Arts
August 21, 2012
Live Arts Bard Presents:
A Reading by Award-Winning Author Neil Gaiman
August 28, 2012
Live Arts Bard Presents Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra on September 5th and 6th
August 30, 2012
Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Presents American Ballet Theatre
September 17, 2012
The Fisher Center Presents the American Symphony Orchestra, October 12 and 13
September 26, 2012
The Fisher Center Presents The Conservatory Sunday Series
October 04, 2012
Famed Composer Meredith Monk to Perform Two Quartet Concerts with Vocal Ensemble
October 22, 2012
The John Cage Trust at Bard College and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Present John Cage: On and Off the Air!
October 26, 2012
Live Arts Bard and the Center for Curatorial Studies Present "Hello Hi There"
November 27, 2012
The Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents Conservatory Sundays: Dawn Upshaw and Friends “A Winter Songfest”
December 16, 2012
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Begins Celebrating Its Tenth Anniversary Year With a Month of Special Performances in April
January 14, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in Concert
February 01, 2013
Bard SummerScape 2013 Explores Life and Times of Igor Stravinsky with Seven-Week Arts Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley (July 6–Aug 18)
February 05, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents The American Symphony Orchestra, February 22 and 23
February 07, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents J.S. Bach's St. John Passion on March 1 and 2
February 18, 2013
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Presents Sō Percussion and the Bard College Conservatory of Music Percussion Program
March 26, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents The American Symphony Orchestra in Concert Featuring Selections From Richard Wagner's Greatest Operas
April 03, 2013
Bard Music Festival’s In-Depth Survey of Music by Igor Stravinsky and His Contemporaries (Aug 9–18)
Is Centerpiece of 2013 Bard SummerScape Festival
April 11, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents Gustav Mahler's Massive Symphony No. 2 as Part of the April Tenth Anniversary Celebration
April 26, 2013
Bard SummerScape 2013 Presents America’s First Full Staging of Taneyev’s Oresteia (July 26–Aug 4), Plus Three Stravinsky Operas in Concert: Oedipus Rex and Perséphone (Aug 18) and Mavra (Aug 11)
April 30, 2013
The Fisher Center Presents The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra on Saturday, May 11
May 01, 2013
On July 6, A Rite by Bill T. Jones/Anne Bogart Celebrates Centenary of The Rite of Spring
May 06, 2013
Bard SummerScape 2013 Premieres Original Stage Adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Seminal Novel, The Master and Margarita
June 03, 2013
Bard’s Beloved Spiegeltent Returns for SummerScape 2013, Providing Sumptuous Venue for Cutting-Edge Cabaret,
Live Music, Dancing, Dining, and More
June 17, 2013
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