OPERA
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, JULY 18 - 21, 2019
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Michael Gordon: Acquanetta
SummerScape
LUMA Theater, Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Annandale-On-Hudson, Dutchess County

$35-$75
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/acquanetta/

Michael Gordon's Acquanetta was the star of last year's PROTOTYPE Festival. Now that director Daniel Fish is the toast of Broadway, it's back, atBard's SummerScape. A nonlinear account of a B-movie Latin Spitfire of the Hollywood '40s and '50s who was actually a Native American (or maybe African American) from Pennsylvania (or maybe Wyoming), it's presented as the kind of horror movie in which she specialized. The Goth-inflected score is one of Gordon's greater achievements.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once long ago, I ran into Stiller & Meara in The "Historic" Village Diner in Red Hook, NY. As I recall, they said they were visiting one of their children at Bard. Which is odd, since as far as I know, neither of their children went to Bard.