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Opera Cheat Sheet: Bluebeard’s Castle
Bluebeard and Judith in an illustration by Gustave Doré for an 1862 edition of Perrault's Tales. Public domain.
In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly, executive director of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, provide a quick overview of Béla Bartók’s 1918 one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle.
Based on a Charles Perrault fairy tale, Bluebeard’s Castle is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a new wife wants to know all about her husband’s previous wives!
Bluebeard’s Castle, along with Tchaikovsky’s one-act Iolanta, are this week’s Met Opera broadcast Saturday, February 14th, at noon on Houston Public Media Classical 91.7.
[The musical excerpts heard in this OCS are taken from a 1998 release of Bluebeard’s Castle on the Deutsche Grammophon label with Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. László Polgár sings Bluebeard and Jessye Norman sings Judith (DG 289 447 040-2)]
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By St.John Flynn
Bluebeard and Judith in an illustration by Gustave Doré for an 1862 edition of Perrault's Tales. Public domain.
In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly, executive director of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, provide a quick overview of Béla Bartók’s 1918 one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle.
Based on a Charles Perrault fairy tale, Bluebeard’s Castle is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a new wife wants to know all about her husband’s previous wives!
Bluebeard’s Castle, along with Tchaikovsky’s one-act Iolanta, are this week’s Met Opera broadcast Saturday, February 14th, at noon on Houston Public Media Classical 91.7.
[The musical excerpts heard in this OCS are taken from a 1998 release of Bluebeard’s Castle on the Deutsche Grammophon label with Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. László Polgár sings Bluebeard and Jessye Norman sings Judith (DG 289 447 040-2)]