Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

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Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

opera by Bartók

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Béla Bartók
Career in Hungary
…Bartók wrote his only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, an allegorical treatment of the legendary wife murderer with a score permeated by characteristics of traditional Hungarian folk songs, especially in the speechlike rhythms of the text setting. The technique is comparable to that used by the French composer Claude Debussy in…
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…Bartók wrote his only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, an allegorical treatment of the legendary wife murderer with a score permeated by characteristics of traditional Hungarian folk songs, especially in the speechlike rhythms of the text setting. The technique is comparable to that used by the French composer Claude Debussy in…
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opera
Czechoslovakia and other eastern European countries
…20th century are the one-act Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (1918), by Béla Bartók, and the ballad opera (opera that includes popular tunes and some spoken passages) Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály (1926), both of which have become more familiar in concert performance or excerpts than in staged productions.
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…20th century are the one-act Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (1918), by Béla Bartók, and the ballad opera (opera that includes popular tunes and some spoken passages) Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály (1926), both of which have become more familiar in concert performance or excerpts than in staged productions.
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