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.
Pastoral
Fisher Center LAB Commission/World Premiere
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Décor by Sarah Crowner
Music by Caroline Shaw
Featuring Pam Tanowitz Dance
Inspired by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
June 27–29
Artwork: (1) The Green One (Window), 2024 © Sarah Crowner; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Mexico City, and Stockholm. Photo: Charles Benton.
Dalibor
By Bedřich Smetana
SummerScape Opera/New Production
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
July 25 – August 3
Artwork by Bruno de Lavenère
The 35th Bard Music Festival
Martinů and His World
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
The Spiegeltent
Live Music • Performance • Dancing
June 27 – August 16
Tickets go on sale in April.
Photo by Maria Baranova
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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 Educational Foundation of America, the 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.
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