ALMANAC WEEKLY
A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar Ca l e n da r & C Classifieds l a ss i fieds | Issue 30 | July 27 – August 3 thursday JB’s Go-Go Boogaloo Dance Party at the Falcon
friday Dweezil Zappa gets frank at Bardavon in Poughkeepsie
saturday Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Bard
sunday Secret City Woodstock art revival
monday Jr. National Hunter Championship horses in Saugerties
tuesday Carload night at opening of the Ulster County Fair
wednesday Pond & Blueberry Adventure for kids at Minnewaska
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DION OGUST
OPENING A DOOR BARD RESCUES DVORÁK’S DIMITRIJ FROM OBSCURITY This weekend, Bard SummerScape carries on its much-admired annual tradition of unearthing some undeservedly little-known opera and mounting a full production – often its US premiere. “The more I look at the opera – the architecture of the piece and the absolutely gorgeous music – the more I am completely bewildered why it’s not done all the time, why it’s not a stable part of the repertoire in the opera world,” says multi-award-winning director Anne Bogart of Antonín Dvorák’s Dimitrij (1882), which is rarely staged outside the Czech Republic. A 1974 Bard College
graduate, Bogart is helming this new production – the first to be fully staged on these shores. Originally set in 17th-century Russia, following the death of the tsar Boris Godunov, Dimitrij concerns a Polish-born pretender to the throne who believes himself to be the lost son of Ivan the Terrible. Dvorák’s protagonist leads the Polish army to march on Moscow, only to fall in love with Godunov’s daughter. Bogart is staging the story in “a time reminiscent of 1989 Berlin…the (Continued on page 10)