In an age where opera houses often play it safe with crowd-pleasing favorites, Bard College’s SummerScape festival stands out as a daring time machine, transporting audiences to forgotten corners of operatic history. This year, nestled in the picturesque Hudson Valley, opera enthusiasts and newcomers alike found themselves immersed in two rarely performed masterpieces: Meyerbeer’s “Le […] In an age where opera houses often play it safe with crowd-pleasing favorites, Bard College’s SummerScape festival stands out as a daring time machine, transporting audiences to forgotten corners of operatic history. This year, nestled in the picturesque Hudson Valley, opera enthusiasts and newcomers alike found themselves immersed in two rarely performed masterpieces: Meyerbeer’s “Le CLASSROOM IDEAS Bright Classroom Ideas