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FULL Bluebeard’s Castle Perm 2024 Garry Agadzhanyan, Natalia Lyaskova
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Bluebeard's Castle aka A kékszakállú herceg vára:
- Composer: Bartok Bela, prologue and epilogue by Valery Voronov
- Libretto: Bela Balazs Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm Russia
- Recorded: April 10, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Garry Agadzhanyan, Natalia Lyaskova
- Conductor: Fedor Lednev
- Orchestra: Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra
- Stage Director: Evgenia Safonova
- Stage Designer: Anastasia Yudina
- Costume Designer: Anastasia Yudina
- Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin, Xenia Koteneva
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Perm Opera
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, rusubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The opera was written in 1911, in this stage version it was 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.