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 ...

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 ...

Though Bedrich Smetana’s DALIBOR—seen this week at Bard SummmerStage in a wonderful production by Jean-Romain Vesperini, with an ingenious set design by Bruno de Lavenere, a fine cast and the American ...

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.

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, ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A lesson with Véronique Firkusny begins without music. “We do it one-on-one our first meeting, without a piano,” she said. “If they’ve done some preparation and they feel ...