Bard SummerScape has announced its 2012 season, to be presented in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College's bucolic Hudson River campus, July 6-August 19.

Princess Grace Award-winner Erica Schmidt will direct Molière's final comedy of manners, The Imaginary Invalid (July 13-22), which blends satire with farce in an indictment of the medical profession.

Among the other highlights of the season are the 23rd Bard Music Festival, "Saint-Saëns and His World," a far-reaching and illuminating program of orchestral, choral, and chamber concerts, as well as preconcert talks and panel discussions, all devoted to examining the life and times of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns; the first staged revival of the original 1887 version of Emmanuel Chabrier's opéra-comique The King in Spite of Himself conducted by Leon Botstein, and directed by Thaddeus Strassberger; dance performances from Compagnie Fêtes Galantes; a film festival, France and the Colonial Imagination; and various offerings in Bard's authentic and sensationally popular Spiegeltent.

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