A great nation in turmoil after the abrupt end to a ruling dynasty leaving no clear path forward. This was Russia in the Time of Troubles, the seventeenth-century period in which AntonÃn Dvořák set his 1882 opera Dimitrij. Conducted by Leon Botstein, a stellar cast along with the Bard Festival Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra animate this powerful production by Anne Bogart ’74 for the 2017 Bard SummerScape Festival.
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