Every summer for the past 20 years, the private liberal arts school of Bard College, two hours north of New York City near Annandale-on-Hudson, has taken it upon itself to perform operas, choral works, dance and drama, many of them offbeat or seldom performed. This year's SummerScape festival saw a complete, 4 ½-hour production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les … [Read more...]