Bard SummerScape 2025
JUNE 27 – AUGUST 17
“A hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary hits.” —The New York Times
Bard SummerScape returns with opera, dance, Spiegeltent, and the 35th Bard Music Festival, Martinů and His World.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN PACKAGE
Can’t miss the world premiere of Pam Tanowitz’s new dance, Pastoral? Excited for Susanne Bartsch’s wild return to the Spiegeltent? Planning to be swept up in the new opera production, Dalibor?
We’ve got you.
With the SummerScape create-your-own package, you can mix and match three or more programs from the full eight-week festival to create your own personalized experience and save 20%.
Pastoral
Fisher Center LAB Commission/World Premiere
June 27–29
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Décor by Sarah Crowner
Music by Caroline Shaw
Featuring Pam Tanowitz Dance
Inspired by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
Photo by Maria Baranova
Jubilee
Fisher Center LAB/Civis Hope Commission
July 11–13
A work-in-progress reading of a libretto by Suzan-Lori Parks
Inspired by Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha
Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III
Photos: Scott Joplin c/o Encyclopædia Britannica; Suzan-Lori Parks by by Tammy Shell
Dalibor
SummerScape Opera/New Production
July 25 – August 3
By Bedřich Smetana
Libretto by Josef Wenzig
Czech translation by Ervín Špindler
Directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini
American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein
Sung in Czech with English supertitles
Martinů and His World
The 35th Bard Music Festival
August 8–10 and 14–17
Weekend One: A Musical Mirror of the 20th Century
August 8–10
Weekend Two: Against Uncertainty, Uniformity, Mechanization: Music in the Mid-20th Century
August 14–17
Image c/o Bohuslav Martinů Centre, Polička
Spiegeltent
Live Music • Performance • Dancing
June 27 – August 16
Photo by Maria Baranova
Plan Your Visit
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.
A letter from Senator Gillibrand
We’re honored to be recognized by Kirsten Gillibrand, the United States Senator representing the state of New York, for our commitment to fostering the performing arts in the Hudson Valley.
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