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 ...

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 ...

Kultur announces the DVD release of Béla Bartok’s only Opera, Duke Bluebeards Castle, starring Robert Lloyd and Elizabeth Laurence with the London Philharmonic conducted by Adam Fischer. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

And the next film by Anna Biller—the director of The Love Witch, one of the best films of 2017—is… well, it’s not actually a film. It’s a book. A riff on the dark fairy tale of Bluebeard, a man whose ...

Originally made for television and now at last available on DVD, this 1988 film of Bartók’s one-act opera is a classic of its kind: beautifully shot in a timeless setting (lots of revealing close-ups) ...