See you next year for the 23rd Bard SummerScape!
JUNE – AUGUST 2026
THEATER • DANCE • OPERA • SPIEGELTENT • BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Described as “a hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary hits” (New York Times), Bard SummerScape is an annual summer arts festival.
The Egyptian Helen
SummerScape Opera/New Production
“Botstein, and his annual opera production at Bard, seem more invaluable by the year.” —The New York Times
Bard’s history of presenting noteworthy operatic rarities continues in 2026 with Richard Strauss’s The Egyptian Helen.
Mozart and His World
The 36th Bard Music Festival
“Bard’s mix of intellectual ambition and freedom from commercial pressures is rare in music-making in the United States, and it flourishes here.” —The New York Times
August 7–9 and 14–16, 2026
The Bard Music Festival returns for its 36th season with an intensive two-week exploration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Unfinished portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91), 1789, by his brother-in-law, actor and painter Joseph Lange (1751–1831)
Spiegeltent
Live Music • Performance • Dancing
June – August 2026
Photo by Maria Baranova
Visit the Fisher Center
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in the beautiful Hudson Valley, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston.
Support
The Fisher Center is generously supported by Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Gregory H. Quinn, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation, Felicitas S. Thorne, Andrew E. Zobler, the Advisory Board of the Fisher Center, Fisher Center members and general fund donors, The Shubert Foundation, Smokler/Hebert Family Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Fisher Center LAB is funded by the Lucille Lortel Foundation and the Fisher Center’s Artistic Innovation Fund, with lead support from Rebecca Gold and additional funding from The William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation.
The Pam Tanowitz Creation Fund is supported by the Friends of Pam with leadership gifts from an anonymous donor, Angela Bernstein CBE, and Lizbeth and George Krupp.
Major development support for the Fisher Center’s Hope Commissions is received from the Fisher Center’s Hope Commissions Fund, endowed by the Civis Foundation and Bard College.
Stay Tuned
Sign up for our mailing list and be the first to get programming announcements and early access to tickets
