Bard Conservatory of Music News Archive

The Maria Callas award is presented each year in recognition of an outstanding company debut. Blythe received the award for her portrayal of Mistress Quickly in the Dallas Opera production of Verdi’s Falstaff.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The US-China Music Institute at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies have collaborated with the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Project to commission a musical work, Men of Iron and the Golden Spike, to give voice to the thousands of Chinese workers who labored to build the railroad.