ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Bard College's critically acclaimed Music Festival enters its final weekend -- Beyond Verismo -- this Thursday, as performers present their final exploration of Italian opera in Giacomo Puccini and His World.The closing weekend's highlights include Friday night's Futurism, Popular Culture, and Technology, which addresses modernity's influence on turn of the ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Giacomo Puccini and His World, the 27th installment of the acclaimed critically acclaimed Bard Music Festival, opens Friday, Aug. 5 with performances of Weekend One: Puccini and Italian Musical Culture.The first of the weekend’s five themed concerts, Program 1: Opera, Politics, and the Italian, examines the ways Italians perceived their newly unified ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Those looking to experience one of Italian opera's hidden gems can do so without booking a flight. Bard College's SummerScape celebration will host a rare performance of Pietro Mascagni's Iris at the school's scenic Hudson Valley campus later this month. A contemporary of Giacomo Puccini, who is the centerpiece of this year's summer festival, Mascagni was ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY -- The Bard SummerScape festival is currently presenting the world premiere -- almost a full century after its creation -- of Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, a futurist puppet play by Fortunato Depero.Originally written in 1917 by Depero, one leading Italian Futurists, the puppet play has been translated, designed and directed by Hudson Valley-based ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Performing arts lovers looking to experience the area's best music, dance and theater performances can find world class entertainment by looking north, not south this summer. Skip the train ride into the city and head up the river to Bard College's SummerScape celebration, held all summer long on the scenic Hudson. The college's annual SummerScape festival ...