As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical ...

In Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé,” a young woman is determined to survive the slums — first by doing sex work, then by posting her gruesome reality for the world to see. By Susie Boyt Susie Boyt is the ...

Oscar did not pick “Un Prophete” (opened March 5 at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas) as its Best Foreign Language Film, although out of all the nominees I saw it was the most deserving. You can listen to ...

4 Video: Bellini’s I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Saying that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is long is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole: It doesn’t begin to describe the experience, ...

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

This image released by Bard College shows Jennifer Feinstein as Fids, foreground center, and Robert Watson as Jean de Leyde, during a performance of "Le prophte," at Fisher Center at Bard College in ...

The composer’s 1849 work is one of extremes, but Mark Elder, the LSO and a top cast give as good as they get in this live recording The British conductor Mark Elder, celebrated for his exhaustive ...