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A detailed analysis of the relationships between the music and movement in Pina Bausch’s 1977 work Bluebeard: on listening to a tape recording of Béla Bartók’s opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” reveals many layers of both structure and meaning to the work.
The plot of Béla Bartók’s 1911 one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle is loosely based on the popular folk tale by Charles Perrault and even more so on Maurice Maeterlinck and Paul Dukas’ opera Ariane et Barbe-bleu.
The book is divided into three parts: a summary of the creation of the opera; a description of the manuscript sources; an examination of the historical meta- morphoses of the Bluebeard tale and the significance of the name of the opera's heroine.
In this opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Bartok echoes the work of Debussy’s work (e.g. the chords for orchestra and organ at the opening of the fifth door reflect parts of La cathedrale engloutie) and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldleben.
4 lis 1999 · Leafstedt begins with a short introductory chapter that places Duke Bluebeard’s Castle within the context of Bartók’s early composing career, his discovery of folk music, and its impact on his later work.
13 lis 2019 · Photo by Cederic X on Unsplash. One such opera is Bluebeard’s Castle, Bela Bartok’s only opera, composed in 1911 and revised in 1912, 1918, and 1921. The story, based on a French fairy tale...
Bluebeard's Castle: how Bartók's psychodrama holds a dark fascination - Classical Music.
