Szilvia Vörös

Mika Kares, Szilvia Vörös, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Susanna Mälkki – Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle, Op. 11, Sz. 48 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:30 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Composed in 1911, Bluebeard’s Castle is Béla Bartók’s only opera – a radical masterpiece which has secured a place alongside the other innovative music dramas of the same period, from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande to Berg’s Wozzeck. Planning to write a one-act opera, Bartók settled on a libretto by Béla Balázs with the kind of surreal and/or macabre themes that would soon feature in his two ballets, The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin. The main source for the libretto text was a play by Maeterlinck, a retelling of Perrault’s gruesome tale of Barbe-Bleue, the sinister yet strangely seductive wife-killer.

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