Commissioning Partners

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Production dates: WORLD PREMIERE, July 4, 2008; additional dates, July 5-9, 2008

with the American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, musical director and conductor

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is dedicated to producing and presenting world-class music, opera, theater, and dance, while providing an intellectually and creatively stimulating home for current and future leaders in all disciplines of the performing arts. Designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry and located in New York's scenic Hudson River Valley, 90 miles north of New York City, the Fisher Center features two state-of-the-art theaters and four studios, which serve both the Center's educational and public service missions. Bard College is a highly selective, rigorous, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences known for its innovative curriculum, small classes, and system of satellite institutions and programs that foster close interaction among students, scholars, artists, and scientists.

"We're delighted to participate in this historic rediscovery, and I think this promises to become a widely performed version of Romeo and Juliet," said Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO).

MMDG made its Fisher Center debut with four sold-out performances of The Hard Nut in December 2006. The 2008 Bard SummerScape Festival is pleased to open its 2008 season on July 4 with the premiere of Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare. Known for it's thematic approach to programming, the 2008 Bard SummerScape Festival will focus on "Prokofiev and His World," and conclude with the celebrated Bard Music Festival running August 8–10 and 15–17, 2008.

Website: http://www.fishercenter.bard.edu