The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of Bedrich Smetana’s opera at Bard’s SummerScape festival. By Oussama Zahr Bedrich Smetana’s “Dalibor” is the kind of opera ...
Nationalist idealism, rapturous duets, the uplifting power of love to drive the human spirit — Smetana’s Dalibor has them all, which is perhaps unexpected in an opera that ends with the leading couple ...