COC’s double bill of ‘Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung’ is a Robert Lepage doozy, dripping with blood

Robert Lepage’s production of these two one-act operas drips with blood.
BroadwayWorld

Review: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts

Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition ...
Yahoo

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: cast illness hampers a restaging of Bartók that was perhaps doomed to fail

Back in 2009, English National Opera presented a dark production by Daniel Kramer of Bartók’s one-act opera about Duke Bluebeard and his new wife Judith; its eerie, creepy images of imprisoned ...
Houston Press

Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, a Great Operatic Work, at Houston Symphony

Houston Symphony has scheduled only two performances of Béla Bartók’s magnificent opera Bluebeard’s Castle. One occurred last night, Saturday, and the final performance is Sunday matinee. This review ...
BroadwayWorld

Minnesota Orchestra Will Present BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE with Thomas Søndergård

The Minnesota Orchestra will present Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle on May 8 and 9, 2026 at Orchestra Hall, led by Music Director Thomas Søndergård. The performances mark the launch of the Orchestra ...
Yahoo UK & Ireland

Bluebeard’s Castle review: Two fascinating interpretations of Bartok’s masterpiece

The eponymous hirsute duke of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle yields to the pressure of his new wife Judith to open one door after another of his castle, revealing aspects of his former life that he ...
Albuquerque Journal

Haunting sounds: Opera Southwest to perform 'Bluebeard's Castle,' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony'

HOW MUCH: $16-$105 at operasouthwest.org; 505-724-4771. $5 tickets available for qualified low-income New Mexico residents at operasouthwest.org/operas/opera-for-all ...