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July 24–August 2: Bard SummerScape Presents Richard Strauss’s Opera <em>The Egyptian Helen </em>in Rare, Lavish New Production by Christian Räth

July 24–August 2: Bard SummerScape Presents Richard Strauss’s Opera The Egyptian Helen in Rare, Lavish New Production by Christian Räth

As a highlight of the 2026 Bard SummerScape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents a rare, grand-scale new production of Richard Strauss’s epic, seldom-staged 1928 opera, The Egyptian Helen (“Die ägyptische Helena”).

2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty Members

Fellowships were awarded to Bard College faculty Jacqueline Goss, professor of film and electronic arts, and Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. MFA summer faculty James Hoff, Steve Reinke, and Kenneth Tam also received fellowships.

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Bard College Awarded $1.35 Million Grant in Support of Humanities Curricular Innovation Project

The Mellon Foundation grant will fund Bard’s project, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” which responds to the rise of unreliable digital, social, and other media, heightened by the proliferation of AI-generated content, which not only threatens our ability to discern fact from fiction but confounds our claims to a shared humanity.

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Bard Student Yale Coopersmith ’26 Recognized as ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Award Recipient

Coopersmith was one of 168 students across the country who was recognized for contributions to creating a more civically engaged culture within their campus communities.

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