The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of Bedrich Smetana’s opera at Bard’s SummerScape festival. By Oussama Zahr Bedrich Smetana’s “Dalibor” is the kind of opera ...
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. This year’s opera rarity at Bard SummerScape, in Dutchess County, is Bedřich Smetana’s “Dalibor” (1868), running through Aug. 3, a tuneful Romantic work hampered by a creaky, ...
Except for the Met’s problematic campaign to promote 21st-century opera, the repertoire presented by U.S. companies has lately contracted to the most familiar works, especially those by Mozart, Verdi ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The piccolo understood its assignment, blasting out clear in moments of populist ardor during this soaring, stately opera that is part romance, part Czech national epic.