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Russia and Stravinsky Are Themes for SummerScape Festival

The Bard SummerScape festival, which will run from July 6 to Aug. 18, will focus on Russia and explore the cultural impact of Igor Stravinsky, devoting its final two weekends to a broad survey of his music, organizers said in announcing the new season.

Other offerings include a rare presentation of Sergey Taneyev’s opera “Oresteia,” written toward the end of the 19th century and considered the Russian composer’s greatest work; a production of the play “The Master and Margarita,” by Mikhail Bulgakov; and what the organizers call a “fresh response” to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” a dance-theater work called “A Rite” based on a collaboration of Bill T. Jones, the choreographer, and Anne Bogart, the director.