performer, director, designer, administrator
The Bard Music Festival presents 'The Polish National Opera: Halka'
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts 60 Manor Avenue Red Hook, NY, 12571 United States (map)
Saturday, August 19 at 8 pm
Sosnoff Theater
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Leon Botstein, conductor
Mary Birnbaum, stage director
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819–72), Halka (1858)
Halka (Warsaw version: 1858) (Wolski)
A performance of the first great Polish opera (something Chopin was continually expected to write), Moniuszko's Halka, a work too frequently underrated outside of Poland.
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