Bard SummerScape Once More Endeavors to Make Meyerbeer Great Again

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Bard SummerScape Once More Endeavors to Make Meyerbeer Great Again

Every year as the centerpiece of SummerScape, Bard College’s wide-ranging performing arts festival, the institution’s president and impresario Leon Botstein exhumes an opera that has been rarely performed in the United States. Often the work is one audiences may be completely unfamiliar with like Dvorak’s Dimitrij or Korngold’s Der Wunder der Heliane or Saint-Saëns’s Henri VIII, which was last year’s rediscovery. But for 2024, Botstein turned to…