Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, shares a double bill with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, starring Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Bass baritone Eric Owens hosts the broadcast.

Timpanist Ryan DiLisi and Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill will be featured at the May 22 and 24 concerts.

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 ...

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 ...

Opera San José will present an all-new production of Béla Bartók's chilling one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle directed by OSJ General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey. This psychological thriller follows ...

“Anger for a man is like tears for a woman,” a doctor tells Judith Moore, the doomed heroine of filmmaker Anna Biller’s new novel, Bluebeard’s Castle (out this week). “We have to let it out sometimes.

In between the clear-cut lines of concert performance and fully staged opera lies the shadowy world of the semi-staged presentation, in which action is hinted at but not fully spelled out. There may ...

Gerard Schwarz can get a little wistful about “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Recalling Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s 2007 production of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s one-act opera, Schwarz, SSO’s conductor ...