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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 (2020) (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 (Libretto: Béla Balázs) (1911)
Halbszenische Aufführung in ungarischer Sprache (Einspielung des Prologs in deutscher Übersetzung)
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.
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