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ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Shaham / Finley / Alsop
»Bartók: Herzog Blaubarts Burg«
Friday
29
April
2022
19:30
Großer Saal
Performers
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Rinat Shaham, Judith
Gerald Finley, Herzog Blaubart
Stefanie Elias, Sprecherin
Georg Zlabinger, Regie
Marin Alsop, Dirigentin
Programme
Judit Varga
Around a Roundabout (UA)
Kompositionsauftrag des ORF Radio-Symphonieorchesters Wien
Sir James MacMillan
The confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990)
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Béla Bartók
A kékszakállú herceg vára »Herzog Blaubarts Burg«. Oper in einem Akt op. 11 (1911)
Halbszenische Aufführung in ungarischer Sprache
Note
Gemeinsam veranstaltet mit RSO Wien
Medienpartner Ö1 Club
Subscription series
VokalKlang
RSO Wien
Links
https://rso.orf.at
https://www.marinalsop.com
http://www.geraldfinley.com
https://rinatshaham.com
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Bluebeard’s Castle
A gloomy castle wall, the notorious landlord Bluebeard alone with his new bride. But don't worry: this is not a matter of life and death - it's about love. At the beginning, according to the libretto, there is nothing more to be seen than the gloomy, cavernous interior of a castle wall; no furniture, no windows, only seven locked doors. Even without a stage set, the bleak desolation of the scenery cannot be ignored. Bartók's ambitious score inventively creates a tonal mirror image of the scenic multicoloredness to these images, and incidentally ensures that a concert performance leaves nothing to be desired in terms of plasticity. Throughout the colorful variety, a (blood-)red thread runs through the question of how unreservedly a love between two people can be and thereby abandon all secrets and niches of retreat.