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Duke Bluebeard's Castle

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Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Opera in one act by Béla Bartók (libretto by B Balázs), composed in 1911 and first produced in Budapest, Hungary, on 24 May 1918, conducted by Egisto Tango. It recounts how the inquisitive bride Judith tours Bluebeard's blood-spattered castle and joins his former wives in eternal gloom.



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Chief among them must be Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
30pm IN tonight's Prom, presented by Verity Sharp live from London's Royal Albert Hall, the Overture, Waltz and Finale from Thomas Ades' powerful chamber opera Powder Her Face precedes another tale of an oppressed woman in Bartok's darkly psychological opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Chilling Duke Bluebeard's Castle started the night with excellent performances from Andrea Silvestrelli's Duke and Sara Fugoni as hesitant new wife, Judith.
 
 
 
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