Karen Cargill is a ravishingly vulnerable Judith to Robert Hayward’s subtle Bluebeard, but a newly devised prequel, The 8th Door, feels aimless and trite What to do with Bluebeard’s Castle? Bartók’s ...
Bluebeard: Here we are now / See before you Bluebeard's Castle / It doesn't look very nice / Are you coming? Judith: Yes, I'm coming / Dearest. Bluebeard: Everything is very bad / Everyone is very sad ...
The eponymous hirsute duke of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle yields to the pressure of his new wife Judith to open one door after another of his castle, revealing aspects of his former life that he ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ENO in Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Nirah Sanghani Back in 2009, English National Opera presented a dark production by Daniel Kramer ...
Of the double bill taking the stage at L.A. Opera this weekend composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, the Greco-Roman myth about the son of Venus’ tragic love affair, represents one of opera’s ...
One word to describe the premiere of “Iolanta” and “Bluebeard’s Castle” at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday: Arresting — and in more ways than one. It goes for the pro-Ukrainian activist who hopped ...
This week on Open Studio, Jared Bowen sits down with the legendary director Anne Bogart to talk about Bartók’s only opera: “Bluebeard’s Castle” for Boston Lyric Opera. Teaming it with work by 19th ...
“Anger for a man is like tears for a woman,” a doctor tells Judith Moore, the doomed heroine of filmmaker Anna Biller’s new novel, Bluebeard’s Castle (out this week). “We have to let it out sometimes.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eponymous hirsute duke of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle yields to the pressure of his new wife Judith to open one door ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eponymous hirsute duke of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle yields to the pressure of his new wife Judith to open one door ...