Fisher Center at Bard
@fishercenterbard.bsky.social
Presenting world-class performing arts in an architecturally bold and dynamic environment in New York’s Hudson Valley. fishercenter.bard.edu
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Frank Gehry (1929 – 2025), architect of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. We owe him an incalculable debt of gratitude, and will honor his memory for as long as live performance flourishes at the Fisher Center.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Frank Gehry (1929 – 2025), architect of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. We owe him an incalculable debt of gratitude, and will honor his memory for as long as live performance flourishes at the Fisher Center.
We are excited to announce that the we have been awarded a grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for FY26.
We are proud to be among the 2,400 grantees across NY who were awarded in this cycle.
Thank you to all those in NYS leadership who believe the arts are indeed essential.
We are proud to be among the 2,400 grantees across NY who were awarded in this cycle.
Thank you to all those in NYS leadership who believe the arts are indeed essential.
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are excited to announce that the we have been awarded a grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for FY26.
We are proud to be among the 2,400 grantees across NY who were awarded in this cycle.
Thank you to all those in NYS leadership who believe the arts are indeed essential.
We are proud to be among the 2,400 grantees across NY who were awarded in this cycle.
Thank you to all those in NYS leadership who believe the arts are indeed essential.
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Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday:
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday:
chra.bard.edu/event/prefur...
chra.bard.edu/event/prefur...
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The @fishercenterbard.bsky.social at Bard, one of the country’s leading multidisciplinary producing houses, partners with Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies to present a concert from Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band on November 1 in the Sosnoff Theater. Learn more and get your tickets now.
The Fisher Center at Bard and Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Present Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, November 1
The Fisher Center at Bard, one of the country’s leading multidisciplinary producing houses, partners with Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies to present a concert from Julia Keefe Indigenous…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The @fishercenterbard.bsky.social at Bard, one of the country’s leading multidisciplinary producing houses, partners with Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies to present a concert from Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band on November 1 in the Sosnoff Theater. Learn more and get your tickets now.
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Attended another splendid music event @fishercenterbard: Bohuslav Martinů’s brilliant, absurdist/surreal opera, Julietta (1938). With its magnificent score performed by the American Symphony Orchestra–Leon Botstein conducting, powerful singers, and opera buffa counterpoints, it was, well, a dream.
August 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Attended another splendid music event @fishercenterbard: Bohuslav Martinů’s brilliant, absurdist/surreal opera, Julietta (1938). With its magnificent score performed by the American Symphony Orchestra–Leon Botstein conducting, powerful singers, and opera buffa counterpoints, it was, well, a dream.
Starting tonight! Join us for the second weekend (August 14–17) of the 35th Bard Music Festival: Martinů and His World. Explore the concerts and events at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
📸: Matt Dine
📸: Matt Dine
August 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Starting tonight! Join us for the second weekend (August 14–17) of the 35th Bard Music Festival: Martinů and His World. Explore the concerts and events at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
📸: Matt Dine
📸: Matt Dine
This Sunday at 3 pm only! 🔸 The Bard Music Festival presents a semi-staged production of the opera Julietta—Martinů’s surreal psychological drama—drawing the season to a gripping close. 🔗 Book now at bit.ly/bmf25-p11.
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This Sunday at 3 pm only! 🔸 The Bard Music Festival presents a semi-staged production of the opera Julietta—Martinů’s surreal psychological drama—drawing the season to a gripping close. 🔗 Book now at bit.ly/bmf25-p11.
“The Bard Music Festival’s exploration of Martinů invites audiences to discover one of the most distinct and delightful voices of his time” — @nytimes.com
Read Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim’s report on the first weekend of Martinů and His World, and a preview of what’s ahead for Weekend Two.
Read Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim’s report on the first weekend of Martinů and His World, and a preview of what’s ahead for Weekend Two.
Bard Music Festival: An Innovator in Exile
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August 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“The Bard Music Festival’s exploration of Martinů invites audiences to discover one of the most distinct and delightful voices of his time” — @nytimes.com
Read Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim’s report on the first weekend of Martinů and His World, and a preview of what’s ahead for Weekend Two.
Read Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim’s report on the first weekend of Martinů and His World, and a preview of what’s ahead for Weekend Two.
The 35th Bard Music Festival begins tonight, kicking off two weekends of concerts, panels, and events exploring the music, life, and world of Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959). 🎶
🔗 Explore the festival at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
🔗 Explore the festival at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
August 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The 35th Bard Music Festival begins tonight, kicking off two weekends of concerts, panels, and events exploring the music, life, and world of Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959). 🎶
🔗 Explore the festival at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
🔗 Explore the festival at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
“Impressive. Dramatic. Ingenious.” @wsj.com
“Dalibor stuns at Bard.” @bachtrack.com
Only two chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Today at 4 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
“Dalibor stuns at Bard.” @bachtrack.com
Only two chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Today at 4 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Impressive. Dramatic. Ingenious.” @wsj.com
“Dalibor stuns at Bard.” @bachtrack.com
Only two chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Today at 4 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
“Dalibor stuns at Bard.” @bachtrack.com
Only two chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Today at 4 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
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Almost rescued from tyranny: Smetena's Dalibor stuns at Bard @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
✍️ Robert Levine
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✍️ Robert Levine
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Almost rescued from tyranny: Smetena's Dalibor stuns at Bard
Bedřich Smetana’s patriotic opera Dalibor is given a rare outing at Bard College, directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini and conducted by Leon Botstein.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Almost rescued from tyranny: Smetena's Dalibor stuns at Bard @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
✍️ Robert Levine
bachtrack.com/review-smeta...
✍️ Robert Levine
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Only three chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Tomorrow, July 30 at 2 pm*
Friday, August 1 at 4 pm
Sunday, August 3 at 2 pm
*This performance will also be livestreamed at 2 pm EDT.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
Tomorrow, July 30 at 2 pm*
Friday, August 1 at 4 pm
Sunday, August 3 at 2 pm
*This performance will also be livestreamed at 2 pm EDT.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
July 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Only three chances remain to see Dalibor—Smetana’s rarely heard operatic masterpiece—at Bard SummerScape.
Tomorrow, July 30 at 2 pm*
Friday, August 1 at 4 pm
Sunday, August 3 at 2 pm
*This performance will also be livestreamed at 2 pm EDT.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
Tomorrow, July 30 at 2 pm*
Friday, August 1 at 4 pm
Sunday, August 3 at 2 pm
*This performance will also be livestreamed at 2 pm EDT.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📸: Maria Baranova
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The Fisher Center has added another treasure to its unrivalled repertoire. Today’s performance of Dalibor was splendid. Everything about it was precise and transporting—direction, diction (in Czech), design, the music, conducted by Leon Botstein, and the voices, oh the voices! Magic on the Hudson.
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues tonight with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor. 🖤⚔️
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Fisher Center has added another treasure to its unrivalled repertoire. Today’s performance of Dalibor was splendid. Everything about it was precise and transporting—direction, diction (in Czech), design, the music, conducted by Leon Botstein, and the voices, oh the voices! Magic on the Hudson.
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues tonight with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor. 🖤⚔️
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
July 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues tonight with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor. 🖤⚔️
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
Don't miss this year’s SummerScape opera. 🔗 Book your tickets now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
📷: Maria Baranova
“Now that we free / Who we gonna be?” 🪽✨
Last weekend, audiences got a special first glimpse of Jubilee—a musical in the making by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Jubilee is the first Fisher Center LAB Civis Hope Commission, an endowed fund for major new performing arts works that explore the subject of hope.
Last weekend, audiences got a special first glimpse of Jubilee—a musical in the making by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Jubilee is the first Fisher Center LAB Civis Hope Commission, an endowed fund for major new performing arts works that explore the subject of hope.
July 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Now that we free / Who we gonna be?” 🪽✨
Last weekend, audiences got a special first glimpse of Jubilee—a musical in the making by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Jubilee is the first Fisher Center LAB Civis Hope Commission, an endowed fund for major new performing arts works that explore the subject of hope.
Last weekend, audiences got a special first glimpse of Jubilee—a musical in the making by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Jubilee is the first Fisher Center LAB Civis Hope Commission, an endowed fund for major new performing arts works that explore the subject of hope.
💥 Exclusive first look: Dalibor 💥
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues next weekend with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
🎥: A Doll’s House Pictures
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues next weekend with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
🎥: A Doll’s House Pictures
July 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
💥 Exclusive first look: Dalibor 💥
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues next weekend with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
🎥: A Doll’s House Pictures
Bard’s decades-long history of presenting noteworthy, rarely performed operas continues next weekend with the first fully staged U.S. production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.
🔗 Book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
🎥: A Doll’s House Pictures
Maestro Leon Botstein introduces this year’s SummerScape Opera—Bedřich Smetana’s rarely heard Dalibor, a powerful Czech opera that weaves themes of revenge, love, and fate.
Experience Dalibor at Bard SummerScape, July 25 – August 3. 🔗 Learn more and book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
Experience Dalibor at Bard SummerScape, July 25 – August 3. 🔗 Learn more and book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Maestro Leon Botstein introduces this year’s SummerScape Opera—Bedřich Smetana’s rarely heard Dalibor, a powerful Czech opera that weaves themes of revenge, love, and fate.
Experience Dalibor at Bard SummerScape, July 25 – August 3. 🔗 Learn more and book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
Experience Dalibor at Bard SummerScape, July 25 – August 3. 🔗 Learn more and book now at bit.ly/dalibor-su25.
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Bard SummerScape’s Pastoral, the latest work by choreographer-in-residence Pam Tanowitz in collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw and visual artist Sarah Crowner, combines music and design in “fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways,” writes the
@nytimes.com. @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
@nytimes.com. @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
‘Pastoral’ Review: Sampling Beethoven at Bard
The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Bard SummerScape’s Pastoral, the latest work by choreographer-in-residence Pam Tanowitz in collaboration with composer Caroline Shaw and visual artist Sarah Crowner, combines music and design in “fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways,” writes the
@nytimes.com. @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
@nytimes.com. @fishercenterbard.bsky.social
Pastoral is a New York Times Critic’s Pick. 💥
“The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways...’Pastoral’ was not a place I wanted to leave.” —Brian Seibert for @nytimes.com
“The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways...’Pastoral’ was not a place I wanted to leave.” —Brian Seibert for @nytimes.com
‘Pastoral’ Review: Sampling Beethoven at Bard
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June 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pastoral is a New York Times Critic’s Pick. 💥
“The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways...’Pastoral’ was not a place I wanted to leave.” —Brian Seibert for @nytimes.com
“The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways...’Pastoral’ was not a place I wanted to leave.” —Brian Seibert for @nytimes.com
🎥 Watch now: the trailer for the world premiere of Pastoral, a new dance performance inspired by Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony.
Experience the world premiere of Pastoral this weekend at SummerScape, June 27–29. 🔗 Book now at bit.y/pastoral-su25.
📹: A Doll’s House Pictures
Experience the world premiere of Pastoral this weekend at SummerScape, June 27–29. 🔗 Book now at bit.y/pastoral-su25.
📹: A Doll’s House Pictures
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🎥 Watch now: the trailer for the world premiere of Pastoral, a new dance performance inspired by Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony.
Experience the world premiere of Pastoral this weekend at SummerScape, June 27–29. 🔗 Book now at bit.y/pastoral-su25.
📹: A Doll’s House Pictures
Experience the world premiere of Pastoral this weekend at SummerScape, June 27–29. 🔗 Book now at bit.y/pastoral-su25.
📹: A Doll’s House Pictures
Pastoral—a major new collaboration between Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz, visual artist Sarah Crowner, and composer Caroline Shaw—makes its world premiere this weekend at Bard SummerScape, June 27–29 only.
Read the @nytimes.com profile on Pastoral below. ⬇️
Read the @nytimes.com profile on Pastoral below. ⬇️
Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Pastoral’ Weaves Beethoven, Art and City Traffic
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June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pastoral—a major new collaboration between Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz, visual artist Sarah Crowner, and composer Caroline Shaw—makes its world premiere this weekend at Bard SummerScape, June 27–29 only.
Read the @nytimes.com profile on Pastoral below. ⬇️
Read the @nytimes.com profile on Pastoral below. ⬇️
Co-Artistic Directors Leon Botstein and Christopher H. Gibbs introduce this year’s Bard Music Festival, dedicated to the 20th century’s foremost Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinů.
🔗 Learn more about Martinů and His World at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
🔗 Learn more about Martinů and His World at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
June 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Co-Artistic Directors Leon Botstein and Christopher H. Gibbs introduce this year’s Bard Music Festival, dedicated to the 20th century’s foremost Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinů.
🔗 Learn more about Martinů and His World at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
🔗 Learn more about Martinů and His World at bit.ly/bard-music-festival.
The Cristal Roxy has risen! 🏗️🦺🔮 Arriving from Belgium by way of Los Angeles in two 40-foot ocean shipping containers, our incredible crew has spent this week building our enchanting mirrored pavilion for another spectacular season.
⭐️🔗 Learn more about the Spiegletent at bit.ly/spiegeltent-bard.
⭐️🔗 Learn more about the Spiegletent at bit.ly/spiegeltent-bard.
June 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Cristal Roxy has risen! 🏗️🦺🔮 Arriving from Belgium by way of Los Angeles in two 40-foot ocean shipping containers, our incredible crew has spent this week building our enchanting mirrored pavilion for another spectacular season.
⭐️🔗 Learn more about the Spiegletent at bit.ly/spiegeltent-bard.
⭐️🔗 Learn more about the Spiegletent at bit.ly/spiegeltent-bard.
“‘Pastoral’ follows in the wake of other Pam Tanowitz pieces birthed at Bard, including ‘Four Quartets,’ which built on T. S. Eliot and left critics’ mouths agape in admiration, and 2022’s Bible-inspired ‘Song of Songs.’”
Pastoral is one of @washingtonpost.com’s best dance shows to see this summer.
Pastoral is one of @washingtonpost.com’s best dance shows to see this summer.
The best dance shows to see this summer, in D.C. and around the country
An electric violin, a tap genius, art world legends, holograms and more will feature in dance shows to see in Washington and around the country.
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May 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“‘Pastoral’ follows in the wake of other Pam Tanowitz pieces birthed at Bard, including ‘Four Quartets,’ which built on T. S. Eliot and left critics’ mouths agape in admiration, and 2022’s Bible-inspired ‘Song of Songs.’”
Pastoral is one of @washingtonpost.com’s best dance shows to see this summer.
Pastoral is one of @washingtonpost.com’s best dance shows to see this summer.