Duke Bluebeard's Castle

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Duke_Bluebeard's_Castle
GPTKB entity
Statements (36)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Kossuth_Prize_(for_Bartók)
gptkbp:basedOn Bluebeard folktale
gptkbp:category 20th-century opera
Hungarian opera
one-act opera
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Béla_Bartók
gptkbp:duration about 1 hour
gptkbp:firstPerformanceBluebeard gptkb:Oszkár_Kálmán
gptkbp:firstPerformanceJudith gptkb:Olga_Haselbeck
gptkbp:firstPerformed gptkb:Egon_Pollak
gptkbp:genre gptkb:opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Duke Bluebeard's Castle
gptkbp:language Hungarian
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Béla_Balázs
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Bluebeard
gptkb:Judith
gptkbp:notableAria Judith's aria at the opening of the fifth door
gptkbp:notableProduction gptkb:Robert_Lepage_(1993)
Mariusz Treliński (2015)
gptkbp:notableRecording Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jessye Norman, László Polgár (1981)
István Kertész, London Symphony Orchestra, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry (1965)
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 1 act
gptkbp:theme love
mystery
psychological drama
darkness
secrets
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jean-Claude_Auvray
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5