Fisher Center at Bard
The Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs that challenge and inspire. As a premier professional performing arts center and a hub for research and education, the Fisher Center supports artists, students, and audiences in the development and examination of artistic ideas, offering perspectives from the past and present, as well as visions of the future. The Fisher Center demonstrates Bard’s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Home is the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and located on the campus of Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley. The Fisher Center offers outstanding programs to many communities, including the students and faculty of Bard College, and audiences in the Hudson Valley, New York City, across the country, and around the world.
DALIBOR • Bard SummerScape 2025
TŌN Violinist Chance McDermott: Excerpt from Martinů’s Symphony No. 2
Teaser: Julietta
Teaser: Dalibor
Maestro's Introduction: Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor
Maestro’s Introduction: Bohuslav Martinů’s Julietta
Leon Botstein and Christopher H. Gibbs on Martinů and His World
Making Pastoral with Pam Tanowitz, Sarah Crowner, and Caroline Shaw
Trailer: The Search for Power
LE PROPHÈTE • Bard SummerScape Opera 2024
In the Rehearsal Room: Le prophète
In the Rehearsal Room: Le prophète
Vincent E. Thomas Discusses the Choreographic Partnership of SCAT!...
In the Rehearsal Room: Ulysses
Roobi Gaskins ’19 Discusses Returning to Bard College with Urban Bush Women
In the Rehearsal Room: Ulysses
In the Rehearsal Room: SCAT!... The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
Maestro Leon Botstein on Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète
The Rise of the Cristal Roxy
Maestro Leon Botstein on Berlioz and His World
HENRI VIII • Bard SummerScape Opera 2023
Director Jean-Romain Vesperini on Henri VIII
Bard Music Festival Board Member Dr. Sanford J. Friedman on Ralph Vaughan Williams
KING ARTHUR (LE ROI ARTHUS) • Bard SummerScape Opera 2021
THE SILENT WOMAN (DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU) • Bard SummerScape Opera 2022