This event is in the past.It took place on August 3, 2026 at Fisher Center at Bard.

Dalibor 1
Opera
Dalibor 2
Dalibor 3
Dalibor 4
Dalibor 5

Dalibor

July 25 at 6:30pm - August 3

At Fisher Center at Bard

Annandale-On-Hudson, Bard College

🎭"makes the strongest possible case musically, dramatically, and visually" (Parterre Box)
🏛️Gehry architecture: a mini Bilbao Guggenheim in the Hudson Valley
🎟️$5 student tickets via Passloff Pass

Smetana's unjustly neglected Dalibor finally gets its American due: a tale of doomed love and revenge set to sweeping Czech melodies. Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra bring this 15th-century tragedy to vivid life inside Frank Gehry's striking Hudson Valley venue.

Rare Czech opera
First American staging
Sweeping romantic tragedy
Frank Gehry architecture