This event is in the past.It took place on August 16, 2026 at Fisher Center at Bard.

Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio 1
Opera
Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio 2
Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio 3

Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio

August 16 at 3pm

At Fisher Center at Bard

Annandale-On-Hudson, Bard College

📰"rich web of context" (The New York Times)
🏛️Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center
🎭Semi-staged concert format

Mozart's Turkish-set opera gets the Bard treatment: a semi-staged concert performance where kidnapping, intrigue, and a Pasha's unexpected mercy collide with Orientalist flair and Enlightenment depth. The New York Times has praised Bard's "rich web of context" for exactly this kind of layered storytelling.

Classical opera
Frank Gehry architecture
Scholarly programming
Enlightenment drama