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The Bard Music Festival: Rediscoveries

The 30th Bard Music Festival

Korngold and His World
Weekend One: August 9–11
Weekend Two: August 16–18
SummerScape Opera
The Miracle of Heliane

by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
July 26 – August 4
Info & Tickets
2019 Bard Festival Preview at Wethersfield

Saturday, June 29

Info & Tickets
2019 Bard Festival Opening Night Dinner

Friday, August 9

Info & Tickets

The 30th Bard Music Festival

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SummerScape OperaThe Miracle of Heliane

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2019 Bard Festival Preview at Wethersfield

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2019 Bard Festival Opening Night Dinner

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[2019 Bard Music Festival Preview at Wethersfield]

2019 Bard Music Festival Preview at Wethersfield
June 29

[2019 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner] Photo by Karl Rabe

2019 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner
August 9

[Program One: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: From Viennese Prodigy to Hollywood Master] "Auf dem Belvedere" by Tina Blau, 1894/1895; Galerie Belvedere

Program One: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: From Viennese Prodigy to Hollywood Master
August 9

[Panel One: Korngold and the Phenomenon of the Child Prodigy] Erich Wolfgang with Hans Robert c. 1902; Korngold Family Collection.

Panel One: Korngold and the Phenomenon of the Child Prodigy
August 10

[Program Two: Teachers, Admirers, and Influences] "The Famous Rosé Quartet" by Max Oppenheimer, 1924; Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Nuernberg, Germany

Program Two: Teachers, Admirers, and Influences
August 10

[Program Three: The Orchestral Imagination] Erich Wolfgang Korngold, c. 1920; The Tully Potter Collection

Program Three: The Orchestral Imagination
August 10

[Program Four: Popular Music from the Cabarets, Taverns, and Salons of Korngold's Vienna] Korngold at the piano, with Ida Lupino; Korngold Family Collection

Program Four: Popular Music from the Cabarets, Taverns, and Salons of Korngold's Vienna
August 11

[Program Five: Before the Reich: Korngold and Fellow Conservatives] "Der Naschmarkt in Wien" by Carl Moll, 1894; Wikimedia Commons

Program Five: Before the Reich: Korngold and Fellow Conservatives
August 11

[Program Six: Operetta’s America] Score covers: Herzogin von Chicago, Rosen aus Florida, The Dollar Princess; Private Collection

Program Six: Operetta’s America
August 11

[Special Showing] The Constant Nymph poster, 1943; ©Warner Brothers/Photofest.

Special Showing
August 16

[Program Seven: Robin Hood and Beyond] The Adventures of Robin Hood poster, 1938; ©Warner Brothers/Photofest.

Program Seven: Robin Hood and Beyond
August 16

[Panel Two: Out of Hollywood: Sound Film and the 20th Century] On screen: Paul Muni in "Juarez," dir. William Dieterle, 1939; Korngold Family Collection

Panel Two: Out of Hollywood: Sound Film and the 20th Century
August 17

[Program Eight: Classics in Hollywood: Film Composers in the Concert Hall] Acme Telephoto; Wikimedia Commons

Program Eight: Classics in Hollywood: Film Composers in the Concert Hall
August 17

[Program Nine: Sustaining the Beautiful: Art during and after the Catastrophe] "Vorfrühling: Illustration zum gleichnamigen Gedicht 'Vorfrühling' von Rainer Maria Rilke," by Koloman Moser, 1901; IMAGNO/Austrian Archives

Program Nine: Sustaining the Beautiful: Art during and after the Catastrophe
August 17

[Program Ten: The American Musical on Stage and Screen] Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya at home, 1942; Wikipedia Commons

Program Ten: The American Musical on Stage and Screen
August 18

[Program Eleven: Hollywood Babylon: No Escape] Vintage Hollywood poster by Circe Denyer; Creative Commons

Program Eleven: Hollywood Babylon: No Escape
August 18

[Program Twelve: Die tote Stadt] Die tote Stadt; "Rückenakt mit erhobenen Armen" by Koloman Moser, c. 1915; Wikimedia Commons

Program Twelve: Die tote Stadt
August 18