Conductor Oksana Lyniv
Production Katie Mitchell
Duke Bluebeard John Lundgren
Judith Nina Stemme
Judith: Concerto for Orchestra in five movements / Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók streamed from Munich.
And now for something completely different. Bluebeard is now a full length opera. All the music is by Bartok, and I loved him more than ever. We begin with a silent movie accompanied by the Bartok concerto for orchestra, where Detective Nina investigates a stalker who kidnaps women off the streets. We have cell phones, cameras, computers, all the modern devices of criminology. We have Bluebeard vaping. This is followed immediately by the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle. She tracks him down and frees his three prisoner wives. I was surprised at how well the story fit this treatment. It explains why she so aggressively insists on seeing all of the rooms.
I loved it. When was an opera this exciting? Except for Bluebeard himself, it was an all female production with a female conductor and director. He gets it in the end.
I was completely drawn in to this concept and was happy to see the woman triumph in the end. This could be the new wave. I need to look into this. It will be available on demand for the next month.
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