SummerScape - Le Prophète
Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 02:00pm
SummerScape and Bard Music Festival
Fisher Center-Bard College
60 Manor Ave
Le prophète
BY GIACOMO MEYERBEER
New Production
Sung in French with English supertitles
Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps
Directed by Christian Räth
American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein
Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama.
Shepherded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists, the simple innkeeper Jean de Leyde is persuaded to proclaim himself king of Münster. Armed with charismatic leadership, Jean mobilizes the masses to mount a tumultuous religious uprising—denouncing his mother, Fidès, and antagonizing his beloved Berthe along the way.
Director Christian Räth (Die schweigsame Frau, 2022; Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to lead a visionary new production of a grand opera with colorful vocal passages, inventive orchestrations, and a catastrophic end.
12 pm: Preperformance Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Location: Sosnoff Theater
Ticketing:
Tickets start at $25
$5 tickets for Bard students are made possible by the Passloff Pass.
Livestream: $20; Free for Members; Reservations Required
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