WEEKEND ONE:
From East to West
According to those who knew him best, Prokofiev led an impulsive, impetuous life in the moment. Smitten with the technological advances of the modern age, he took full advantage of high-speed communication and intercontinental travel. In 1918, after completing the rigorous program of studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, he departed Revolutionary Russia for the United States. After a two-year stay, he left for France, where, like most émigré artists of the period, he made Paris his home. During these hectic years, he composed three ballets and three operas, fulfilled recording contracts, and played recitals of tempestuous music. Scores were stored in suitcases, scenarios and librettos drafted on hotel letterhead. The transience tired him, but he prided himself as an optimistic, progressive person of action. In 1936, Prokofiev left France, an often nettlesome haven for foreigners, to take up permanent residence in Russia, an altogether transformed nation.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
Program One
From Russia and Back: The Career of Sergey Prokofiev
Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Chiara String Quartet; Jeremy Denk, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; John Hancock, baritone; Irina Mishura, mezzo-soprano; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Suggestion diabolique, from Four Pieces, Op. 4 (1910–12)
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical” (1916–17)
Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27 (1916)
March, from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33ter (1922)
Five Melodies, Op. 35bis (1925)
String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50 (1930)
Two Songs, from Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60bis (1934)
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34bis (1919; orch. 1934)
Sonata No. 7, in B-flat Major, for piano, Op. 83 (1939–42)
Tickets: $20, 35, 45
Please note that the Spiegeltent will be closed to dining on Friday, August 8, to accommodate the Bard Music Festival Gala Benefit.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9
Panel One
Prokofiev: The Man and His Music
Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Caryl Emerson, moderator; Marina Frolova-Walker; David Nice; Harlow Robinson
Free and open to the public

Program Two
Before Emigration: Teachers and Influences
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: David Nice
1:30 pm Performance: Michael Abramovich, piano; Chiara String Quartet; Jeremy Denk, piano; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Sophie Shao, cello; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Visions fugitive, Op. 22 (1915–17)
Two Poems, Op. 9 (1910–11)
Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)
Ballad, Op. 4 (1902)
Aleksandr Glazunov (1865–1936)
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39 (1891)
Nicolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945)
Six Quartets for Four French Horns (1920)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Three Movements from Petroushka, for piano (1921)
Piano works by Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) and Nicolas Medtner (1880–1951)
Tickets: $35

Program Three
The Silver Age: Mystic Symbols
Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Simon Morrison
8 pm Performance: Blair McMillen, piano; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10 (1911–12)
They Are Seven, cantata after Bal’mont, Op. 30 (1917–18; rev. 1933)
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44 (1928)
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Sadko, tone poem, Op. 5 (1891–92)
Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914),
The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 (1909)
Aleksandr Scriabin (1871–1915),
Le poème de l’exstase, Op. 54 (1905–08)
Joseph Achron (1886–1943)
Epitaph, in Memory of Aleksandr Scriabin (1915) (world premiere)
Tickets: $25, 40, 55

RELATED FILMS
Alexander Nevsky, August 7 at 7 pm; August 9 at 5 pm
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II, August 10 and 14 at 7 pm
All films are screened at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center.
Tickets: $8

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10
Panel Two
Prokofiev and Composing for Stage and Film
Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Simon Morrison, moderator; Kevin Bartig; Caryl Emerson; Joan Neuberger
Free and open to the public

Program Four
The Paris Years
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chamber Players; Amy Burton, soprano; Philip Edward Fisher, piano; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Robert Martin, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 (1924) (Trapèze)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
From Sports et divertissements (1914)
Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
From Le cahier romand (1921–23)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Trio, Op. 43 (1926)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Chansons madécasses (1926)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Octet (1922–23)
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
From Le train bleu, Op. 84 (1924; arr. Milhaud)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
Chansons françaises (1930)
Georges Auric (1899–1983)
Trio in D Major (1938)
Tickets: $35

Program Five
The Cult of the Child
Sosnoff Theater
5 pm Preconcert Talk: Mary E. Davis
5:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Lucille Chung, piano; Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Eckart Preu, conductor; narrator TBA

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)
The Chatterbox, from Three Songs for Children, Op. 68 (1936)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Ma mere l’oye (1908–10)Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Histoire de Babar, le petit élephant, Op. 129 (1940–45)
John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951)
Krazy Kat (1921; rev. 1940)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Gymnope`dies (1888; orch. ?1896, Debussy)
Tickets: $20, 35, 45

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WEEKEND TWO AUGUST 15–17:
The Faustian Pact
After his return to Russia, Prokofiev soon found himself trapped, unable after 1939 to travel abroad and unable to compose in the manner he desired. Though valued by the Stalinist regime and supported by its institutions, he suffered correction and censorship, the result being a gradual sapping of his creative energies. Prokofiev revised and re-revised his late ballets and operas in order to appease cultural officials but, more often than not, his labors went to waste. Following his official denunciation in 1948, jittery concert and theater managers pulled his works from the repertoire. Physical illness cast a pall on Prokofiev’s last years. Housebound, he turned inward, fulfilling modest commissions, many of them works on the theme of youth.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
Symposium
Stalin and Stalinists
Multipurpose room, Bertelsmann Campus Center
10 am–noon
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Jonathan Becker, moderator; Leonid Maximenkov, Richard Taruskin, and others. Free and open to the public.

Program Six+
White Russians Abroad
Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Rebecca Stanton
8 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
From Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116 (1942–44)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
From All-night Vigil, Op. 37 (1915)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Aleksandr Grechaninoff (1864–1956)
From The Seven Days of the Passion, Op. 58 (1911–12)
Works by Nicolas Obukhov (1892–1954)
Tickets: $20, 35, 45
+ Round-trip transportation by coach from Columbus Circle to the Fisher Center will be provided for this performance. For information, please call 845-758-7900. Reservations required.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
Program Seven
From Broadway to Gorky Street
Olin Hall
10 am Performance with Commentary by Mitchell Morris, with James Bassi, piano; Jonathan Hays, baritone; Tonna Miller, soprano, and others

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953),
From Songs of Our Days, Op. 76 (1937)
Songs by Vernon Duke (1909–69); George Gershwin (1898–1937); Jerome Kern (1885–1945); Cole Porter (1891–1964); Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–55); Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906–75); and others
Tickets: $30

Program Eight
The Return to the U.S.S.R.
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Laurel Fay
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Randolph Bowman, flute; Frederic Chiu, piano; Benjamin Hochman, piano; and others

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (1941)
Sonata in D Major, Op. 94, for flute and piano (1943)
Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 21a (1933–34)
Aram Khachaturian (1903–78)
Song-Poem, “In Honor of an Ashugh” (1929)
Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906–75)
String Quartet, No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 (1946)
Tickets: $35

Program Nine
Manufacturing a Soviet Sound
Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Taruskin
8 pm Performance: Gavriel Lipkind, cello; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Summer Night, Op. 123 (1950)
Symphony-Concerto in E Minor, Op. 125 (1950–51, rev. 1952)
Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 (1933)
Vissarion Shebalin (1902–68)
Variations on the Russian Folksong “Oh My Field,” Op. 30 (1940)
Tickets: $25, 40, 55

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17

Panel Three
Religion, Spirituality, and Music
Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Leon Botstein; Simon Morrison; Maya Pritsker
Free and open to the public

Program Ten
Formalism: Challenge and Response
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Frederic Chiu, piano; Benjamin Hochman, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Bard Festival Chamber Players; and others

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Piano Sonata No. 9 in C Major, Op. 103 (1947)
Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello, Op. 134 (unpbl.)

Arias from Semyon Kotko, Op, 81 (1939) and
The Story of a Real Man, Op. 117 (1947–48)
Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906–75)
From 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1950–51)
Dmitrii Kabalevsky (1904–87)
Seven Merry Songs, Op. 41 (1945)
Vladimir Shcherbachyov (1887–1952)
Peter I, suite for string quartet (1943)
Tickets: $35

Program Eleven
20th-Century Russia: Nostalgia and Reality
Sosnoff Theater
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
5:30 pm Performance: Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Egyptian Nights Suite (1934)
Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74 (1936–37)
Vladimir Dukelsky (Vernon Duke) (1909–69)
Epitaph (1932)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Three Russian Songs, Op. 41 (1926)
Tickets: $25, 40, 55

WEEKEND THREE – OCTOBER 24–25: Prokofiev in America and Russia

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
Program One
Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Waltz Suite, Op. 110 (1947) March and Scherzo, from The Love for Three Oranges,Op. 33 (1921)
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 (1944)
John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951)
Violin Concerto (1936)
Tickets: $25, 40, 55

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
Panel: Art and Dictatorship
Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Leon Botstein; Simon Morrison; and others
Free and open to the public

Program Two
Olin Hall
2:30 pm Preconcert Talk
3 pm Performance: Faculty and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music

Works by Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Tickets: $25

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SOME KEY DATES FOR SUMMERSCAPE 2008

July 4 SummerScape opens with Mark Morris's Romeo & Juliet
July 5 First of five performances of Peter and the Wolf for kids
July 9 First of thirteen performances of Uncle Ványa (first of two previews)
July 25 First of five performances of Szymanowski double-bill
August 1 First of nine performances of Of Thee I Sing
Aug 8-10 Bard Music Festival Weekend One
Aug 15-17 Bard Music Festival Weekend Two
Oct 24-25 Bard Music Festival Weekend Three

BARD SUMMERSCAPE 2008 EVENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

July 4 (Friday)
5:00 pm Private Gala Benefit (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff)
11:30 pm Opening Night Gala (Spiegeltent)

July 5 (Saturday)
2:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff) – bus service from NYC
5:30–7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 6 (Sunday)
3:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff)
3:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
5:30–7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Film Triple Bill (Ottaway Film Center)
8:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 8 (Tuesday)
8:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff)

July 9 (Wednesday)
8:00 pm Romeo & Juliet (Sosnoff)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa preview (Theater Two)

July 10 (Thursday)
5:30–7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Boudu Saved from Drowning (Ottaway)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa preview (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 11 (Friday)
5:30–7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
10 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 12 (Saturday)
2:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
3:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 13 (Sunday)
3:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two) with post-performance talk-back
3:30 pm Peter and the Wolf (Spiegeltent)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Gold Diggers of 1933 (Ottaway)
7:30 pm Slavic Soul Party! (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 16 (Wednesday)
2:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)

July 17 (Thursday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm 42nd Street (Ottaway)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Mind on Trial (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 18 (Friday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Trapeze (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 19 (Saturday)
2:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
3:30 pm Trapeze (Spiegeltent)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
8:30 pm Trapeze (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 20 (Sunday)
3:00 pm Uncle Ványa (Theater Two)
3:30 pm Trapeze (Spiegeltent)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm They Won't Forget (Ottaway)
8:30 pm Radio Archaeology (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 24 (Thursday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Theodora Goes Wild (Ottaway)
8:30 pm Wau Wau Sisters (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 25 (Friday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Harnasie/King Roger (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm Wau Wau Sisters (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 26 (Saturday)
5:00 pm Theodora Goes Wild (Ottaway)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:30 pm Paved Paradise (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 27 (Sunday)
1:00 pm Opera Talk (Sosnoff)
3:00 pm Harnasie/King Roger (Sosnoff)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Midnight (Ottaway)
8:30 pm Radio Archaeology (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

July 31 (Thursday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Remember the Night (Ottaway)
8:00 pm Harnasie/King Roger (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm Red Bastard (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 1 (Friday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
8:30 pm New Albion One (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 2 (Saturday)
1:00 pm Opera Talk (Theater Two)
3:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
3:30 pm New Albion Two (Spiegeltent)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Harnasie/King Roger (Sosnoff) – bus service from NYC
8:30 pm New Albion Three (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 3 (Sunday)
3:00 pm Harnasie/King Roger (Sosnoff)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
7:00 pm Rules of the Game (Ottaway)
8:30 pm New Albion Four (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 6 (Wednesday)
2:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
8:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)

August 7 (Thursday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
5:30 pm New Albion Five (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Alexander Nevsky (Ottaway)
8:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 8 (Friday)
5:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Private Gala Benefit (Spiegeltent)
7:30 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
8:00 pm BMF Program 1 (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm New Albion Six (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 9 (Saturday)
10:00 am BMF Panel One (Olin)
1:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Olin)
1:30 pm BMF Program Two (Olin)
3:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
5:00 pm Alexander Nevsky (Ottaway)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
8:00 pm BMF Program Three (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm New Albion Seven (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 10 (Sunday)
10:00 am BMF Panel Two (Olin)
1:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Olin)
1:30 pm BMF Program Four (Olin)
3:00 pm Of Thee I Sing (Theater Two)
3:30 pm New Albion Eight (Spiegeltent)
5:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
5:30 pm BMF Program Five (Sosnoff)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II (Ottaway)
8:30 pm New Albion Nine (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 14 (Thursday)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II (Ottaway)
8:30 pm Gerry Leonard: Spooky Ghost (Spiegeltent)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 15 (Friday)
10:00 am BMF Symposium (Bertelsmann Campus Center)
1:30 pm BMF Symposium (Bertelsmann Campus Center)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:30 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
8:00 pm BMF Program Six (Sosnoff) – bus service from NYC
8:30 pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Spiegeltent) – (Rated PG13)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 16 (Saturday)
10:00 am BMF Program Seven (Olin)
1:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Olin)
1:30 pm BMF Program Eight (Olin)
3:30 pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Spiegeltent) – (Rated G)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
7:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
8:00 pm BMF Program Nine (Sosnoff)
8:30 pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Spiegeltent) – (Rated PG13)
10:00 pm SpiegelClub (Spiegeltent)

August 17 (Sunday)
10:00 am BMF Panel Three (Olin)
1:00 pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Spiegeltent) – (Rated G)
1:00 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Olin)
1:30 pm BMF Program Ten (Olin)
3:30 pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Spiegeltent) – (Rated G)
4:30 pm BMF Preconcert Talk (Sosnoff)
5:30 pm BMF Program Eleven (Sosnoff)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner (Spiegeltent)
8:00 pm Closing Festivities (Spiegeltent)

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2008 Bard SummerScape: Dance

World Premiere
Romeo & Juliet,
on Motifs of Shakespeare
Music by Sergey Prokofiev
Scenario by Sergey Prokofiev and Sergey Radlov

Mark Morris Dance Group

American Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Mark Morris, choreographer
Allen Moyer, scenic designer
Martin Pakledinaz, costume designer
James F. Ingalls, lighting designer

July 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 2008

2008 Bard SummerScape: Drama

Uncle Ványa
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Paul Schmidt

Directed by Erica Schmidt
Mark Wendland, set designer
Michelle R. Phillips, costume designer
David Weiner, lighting designer

With Peter Dinklage as Uncle Ványa

July 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 2008

2008 Bard SummerScape: Opera

Karol Szymanowski: Opera Double Bill
Sung in Polish with English supertitles

Harnasie
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Scenario by Karol Szymanowski and Jerzy Rytard
and
King Roger (The Shepherd)
(Król Roger)
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Libretto by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz

American Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Wroclaw Opera Chorus
New York City Opera Children's Chorus
Directed and designed by Lech Majewski
Choreographed by Wojciech Misiuro

July 25, 27, 31, and August 2, 3, 2008

2008 Bard SummerScape: Musical Theater

Of Thee I Sing
Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

Conducted by James Bagwell
Directed and choreographed by Will Pomerantz
Louisa Thompson, set designer
Carol Bailey, costume designer
Justin Townsend, lighting designer

August 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2008

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2008 Bard SummerScape: SpiegelTent

July 5 – August 14, 2008

2008 Bard SummerScape: Film Festival

Cinéma Transcontinentale: America, Russia, and France in the 1930s

July 6 – August 14, 2008