To: Jefffrey [email protected] From: Lesley Groff Sent Tue 7/9/2013 2:34:46 PM Subject: Leon Botstein's Concert Info (slight change from Leon's dates) Below are the links to the SummerScape program (opera, etc...) and to the Bard Music Festival, but here are the details regarding the opera specifically. Please note that the dates Leon mentioned are partially incorrect, so please use my information below as a reference. I have placed in your July and Aug. itineraries. Sosnoff Theater (Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College) July 26 and August 2 at 7 pm July 28, 31, and August 4 at 3 pm Opera Talk by Leon Botstein, July 28 at I pm ORESTEIA BY SERGEY TANEYEV U.S. Stage Premiere American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger Russian composer Sergey Taneyev's extraordinary but neglected opera conveys the searing drama of Aeschylus' powerful trilogy about the cursed House of Atreus, from Agamemnon's fateful return from Troy to the trial of his son Orestes. Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to SummerScape after his successes in previous seasons with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Schreker's Der ferne Kiang, and Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui. Sung in the original Russian with English supertitles. LINKS: fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/ fishercenter.bard.edu/bme EFTA_R1_00444529 EFTA01966363