Explore the 2025 Season

SummerScape

Fisher Center

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.

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Patron Concierge Ticketing
Tuesday, February 18

 

Member Presale
Tuesday, February 25

Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 5.

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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