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Duke Bluebeard's Castle
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle (A Kékszakállù herceg vára). Opera in 1 act, Op.11, by Bartók, comp. 1911, to lib. by Béla Balázs (after fairy-tale by Perrault), for sop. and bar. Rev. 1912 and 1918. First perf. Budapest 1918, Dallas (concert) 1946, NY 1952, London 1957.
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Bluebeard's female helper: the ambiguous role of the strange old woman in the Grimms' "Castle of Murder" and "The Robber Bridegroom."(Research Paper)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; "Bluebeard" offers one of the most graphic descriptions...putrefaction as in the Grimms' version of "Bluebeard" (Blaubart), or are sometimes even...some Italian versions, which identify Bluebeard with the devil.(2) At this grisly...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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'Bluebeard' a superb concoction
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; Bela Bartok's 1918 opera "Bluebeard's Castle" is a superbly concocted...symbolism and psychology. Duke Bluebeard has murdered his three wives. And...willingly chooses death. But, has Bluebeard actually killed his wives, or is...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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OPERA'S 'BLUEBEARD' INTENSE.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Post music writer Meet the Bluebeards - the Duke and Mrs. - newlyweds...Bartok's one-act opera ''Bluebeard's Castle,'' to be performed...this is the bloodthirsty Bluebeard, known to young and old from...adaptation, his only opera, Bluebeard's bride doesn't get rescued...
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Bluebeard's castle: - a tragedy of power and patriarchy.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Bela Balazs remembered his libretto for Bluebeard's Castle (1911). The result is a...landscape. It opens with the enigmatic Duke Bluebeard letting his new bride Judith into his...dawns on us that we are actually inside Bluebeard's mind, a mind which is shut up and...
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BARTÓK: Bluebeard's Castle (in English)
Magazine article from: Opera News; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; BARTK: Bluebeard's Castle (in English) Burgess; Tomlinson...Chandos Chan 3133 The plot of Bartk's Bluebeard's Castle is almost entirely free of action: the brooding, mysterious Bluebeard brings his bride Judith home to his dark...
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Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. By Maria Tatar. (Princeton...Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives is an expansive but unpersuasive...Maria Tatar takes a second bite at the Bluebeard apple, having previously visited the...
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The impossibility of loving.(Bartok's opera 'Bluebeard's Castle'; includes discography)(On Music)(Column)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 8/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...universal tragedy than Bela Bartok's Bluebeard & Castle to a libretto by Bela...It could not have helped that although Bluebeard was a success at its much-delayed 1918...To fill an evening, Bartok allowed Bluebeard to become part of a triple bill with...
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Anti-housewives and Ogres' housekeepers: the roles of Bluebeard's female helper. (Research article: focus on women).
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Folklore (108:45-8) about a somewhat unexpected character in some Bluebeard stories. Hempen calls her "Bluebeard's female helper." An old woman employed in Bluebeard's home in two tales in the first edition of the Grimms' Kinder...
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Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Pierre Boulez makes a return trip to Bluebeard's Castle. This time his fellow travelers...Polgar and the Chicago Symphony. BARTOK: Bluebeard's Castle * Norman; Polgar; Chicago...superb Chicago Symphony. He returned to Bluebeard's Castle in 1993, and the performance...
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Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela...Laval is often considered the historical Bluebeard, the grisly protagonist of the tale...subject of Bela Bartok's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle. As Carl Leafstedt points...
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Bluebeard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity...watching from a tower. Breton tradition links Bluebeard with the seigneur de Retz, but the story...
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Bluebeard's Castle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Bluebeard's Castle ( Bartók). See Duke Bluebeard's Castle .
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Duke Bluebeard's Castle ( A Kékszakállù herceg vára ). Opera in 1 act, Op.11, by Bartó...
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Russell, P(hilip) Craig 1951–
Book article from: Something About the Author
...Salom é ," "Ariane and Bluebeard," and "The Magic Flute"; Dark Horse...Forestville, CA), 1988. Ariane and Bluebeard (based on the opera by Maurice M...Volume II: Parsifal, Ariadne and Bluebeard, I Pagliacci , and songs by Mahler...
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Gilles de Laval Retz, seigneur de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...reason to doubt his confession. He has been supposed, probably wrongly, to be the original of Bluebeard . Bibliography: See E. Gabory, Alias Bluebeard (tr. 1930); T. Dix, Black Baron (1930); J. Benedetti, Gilles de Rais (1971).
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