Bartok Bela: A Kékszakállú Herceg Vára -Duke Bluebeard's Cas

1/14 Bartok Bela:
A Kékszakállú Herceg Vára
Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Kékszakállú/Bluebeard/: Kovács István
Judit: Kolonits Klára

Conductor: Selmeci György
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Director: Silló Sándor

Camera-man: Nemes Tibor

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bartok
• Bela:
• A
• Kékszakállú
• Herceg
• Vára
• Duke
• Bluebeard's
• Castle
• Kovács
• István
• Kolonits
• Klára

[ocsdct]

I am a complete ignorant about Opera, but this one is incredibly fanastic!! Only a genius like Bartók could make me pay attention to Opera. I'm still ignorant about it, but my attitude is changing!...could anyone make me a suggestion about where to start with Opera? Thanks a lot!

[HerrWozzeck]

Oh, my! I love this opera to death! And this is a great production.

It's in black and white, which sort of kills the lighting instructions that Bartok leaves in the scores, but everything else about it is incredible! Great interpretation, great singers!

And all this on an opera I love to death! Thank you so much for posting this!

[jaycaspar]

Anyone interested in Opera, but wanna start from the top ( modern works), should begin with listening to John Corigliano´s "The Ghosts of Versailles", then Philip Glass´ Akhnaten, then WAGNER! Then proceed to Bellini, Verdi, Puccini and never let go...

[gomongio]

Never heard this opera completely, but as Bartók's music at least some excerpts I've heard have been amazing... even when my taste for operas is more likely to other composers, the classic ones... Bartok is a genious!

By the way, I've never before heard Hungarian spoken and it sounds pretty ...

[khhbear1]

I have had a copy of this opera since I was first exposed to it. Love this production of it. If there was a DVD of it,  I would buy it.

[bvbmassa]

Sztem kifejezetten illik ez a líraibb, bensőségesebb előadásmód a Kéksazkállúhoz.

[Zsooor]

Hát már sok változatát hallottam, és most ezt is félig, de nekem továbbra is a legelső előadás tetszik, amiben Székely Mihály a Kékszakállú. Ő alakította eddig a legférfiasabban.

[hangya10]

And you've forget Maria Callas! She is so great, I love her so much!!! :DDD

[ocsdct]

Thank you very much to all of you!

[phloatingpheasant]

Agreed. But I do think Opera is an acquired taste and needs to be eased into.

[experimentalis]

and why not baroque opera? Search here, in youTube, for names like Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Dessay, Philippe Zaroussky, Sara Mingardo -for a very different pathos

[experimentalis]

A scenically excellent version of my most beloved opera. But as for the music, for me the best ones remain the first one by Boulez, with Tatiana Troyanos and Nimsgern, and the dark Hungaroton version, in the Gold Bartok series