Bluebeard’s Castle

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Bluebeard’s_Castle
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:awards Kossuth Prize (awarded to Bartók, 1948)
gptkbp:basedOn Bluebeard folktale
gptkbp:catalogueNumber gptkb:Sz._48,_Op._11
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Béla_Bartók
gptkbp:duration about 60 minutes
gptkbp:firstPerformanceBluebeard gptkb:Oszkár_Kálmán
gptkbp:firstPerformanceJudith gptkb:Olga_Haselbeck
gptkbp:firstPerformed gptkb:Egisto_Tango
gptkbp:genre symbolist opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Bluebeard’s Castle
gptkbp:language Hungarian
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Béla_Balázs
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Bluebeard
gptkb:Judith
gptkbp:notableProduction Robert Lepage, Canadian Opera Company, 1993
gptkbp:notableRecording István Kertész (conductor), Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, London Symphony Orchestra, 1965
Pierre Boulez (conductor), Jessye Norman, László Polgár, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1993
gptkbp:numberOfActs 1
gptkbp:orchestration large orchestra
gptkbp:premiereDate 1918-05-24
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:Royal_Hungarian_Opera_House,_Budapest
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Universal_Edition
gptkbp:setting Bluebeard’s castle
gptkbp:structure prologue and seven scenes
gptkbp:theme gptkb:marriage
gptkb:train
mystery
psychological drama
secrets
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Metropolitan_Opera_2019
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6