The Bard Music Festival and
the Polish Cultural Institute in New York
present:
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
OPERA DOUBLE BILL:
HARNASIE & KING ROGER
© Władysław Skoczylas: Marsz zbójników, woodcut, 1920
HARNASIE
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Scenario by Karol Szymanowski and Jerzy Rytard
KING ROGER (THE SHEPHERD) (KROL ROGER)
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Libretto by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Adam Kruszewski (King Roger)
Iwona Hossa (Roxane)
Tadeusz Szlenkier (Shepherd)
Wojciech Maciejowski (Edrisi)
Ewa Marciniec (Deaconess)
Wojciech Bujalski (Archereios)
Wroclaw Opera Chorus
Summerscape Festival Children's Chorus
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, conductor
Directed and designed by Lech Majewski
Choreographed by Noemie Lafrance
Sung in Polish with English supertitles
JULY 25, 31, AUGUST 2*, 2008, 8:00 PM
JULY 27**, AUGUST 3, 2008, 3:00 PM
The Bard Music Festival “Prokofiev and His World”
Sosnoff Theater
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
Tickets: $25, $55, $75, Thursday Performance: $20, $45, $65.
Tickets are on sale now. Click here to order tickets online or call 845.758.7900
*Round-trip transportation by coach for the August 2 performance from Columbus Circle to the Fisher Center will be available. Reservations are required. Tel. 845.758.7900.
** JULY 27, 1:00 PM
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, Free and open to the public
Produced by The Bard Music Festival. Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.