A KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ HERCEG VÁRA (BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE)

B. Bartok, V. Voronov Opera 18+

Libretto by Béla Balázs

The opera was written in 1911, in this stage version it will be presented for the first time in Perm in 2022 with a prologue and epilogue by Valery Voronov

Performed in Hungarian with Russian subtitles

Béla Bartók’s only opera made the Hungarian composer a classic of the musical theater of the 20th century. The epitome of modernist operatic form and a manifesto of musical expressionism, «Bluebeard’s Castle» is structured as a one-act thriller.

The participants in the psychological drama are the Duke, his young wife Judith and the symphony orchestra, which from the first to the last note carries on a tense dialogue with the two singers on stage. In the performance of the Perm Opera «Bluebeard’s Castle» will be performed in the frame of the prologue and epilogue, written for Bartok’s score by the famous composer Valery Voronov (Belarus/Germany) specially commissioned by the theater.

With this production, Evgenia Safonova, director-resident of the BDT im. Tovstonogov, laureate of the Golden Mask-2020 and one of the leaders of the new Russian theatrical wave. Together with her, the St. Petersburg conductor Fedor Lednev, who has established himself as the largest domestic specialist in the interpretation of music of the 20th-21st centuries, is working on the performance.