Duke Bluebeard's Castle / La voix humaine

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy

Scene 3 from the opera "Bluebeard's Castle", photo 1

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Important Info

Type: Opera

City: Naples, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Duration: 1h 55min

Cast

Performers

Mezzo-Soprano: Elīna Garanča (Judith)

Soprano: Barbara Hannigan (The Woman)

Conductor: Edward Gardner

Bass: John Relyea (Bluebeard)

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo

Creators

Composer: Béla Bartók

Composer: Francis Poulenc

Librettist: Béla Balázs

Author: Charles Perrault

Poet: Jean Cocteau

Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski

Overview

Production of Opéra de Paris and Teatro Real of Madrid

History

Premiere of this production: 24 May 1918, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act expressionist opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer, and is written in Hungarian, based on the French literary tale La Barbe bleue by Charles Perrault. The opera lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (Kékszakállú), and his new wife Judith (Judit); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's castle for the first time.

Premiere of this production: 06 February 1959, Opéra-Comique, Paris

La voix humaine (The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau, who, along with French soprano Denise Duval, worked closely with Poulenc in preparation for the opera's premiere. Poulenc's tragédie lyrique was first performed at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 February 1959, with Duval singing the female role and Georges Prêtre conducting; the scenery, costumes and direction were by Cocteau.

Venue Info

Teatro di San Carlo - Naples
Via San Carlo, 98

The Teatro Reale di San Carlo (Royal Theatre of Saint Charles), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice. The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1,386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for theatres that were later built in Europe.

Important Info

Type: Opera

City: Naples, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Duration: 1h 55min

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