Past Production Reviews
1Rimsky-Korsakov is the focus of the 2018 edition of the Bard Music Festival, but the organizers didn’t pick one of his works for the traditional fully-staged operatic preamble. Instead, they selected the little known The Demon by Rimsky’s older contemporary, Anton Rubinstein. For decades, Leon Botstein and his American Symphony Orchestra have specialized in reviving musical works they believe are unduly neglected. Obviously, true “discoveries” are rare. Many scores have been relegated to the footnotes of art history for good reasons, not just due to changes in taste. But there are still many meritorious works that can be occasionally brought forward for the enjoyment of that part of the public tired to attend performances of the same operas repeated again and again.
