Opera in one act
This highly acclaimed film version of Béla Bartók’s searing psychological opera, performed by Robert Lloyd and Elizabeth Laurence, won the 1989 Prix Italia Music Prize.
Bartók’s short opera, one of the composer’s most impressive early works, tells the macabre legend of Duke Bluebeard, who brings his young wife Judith to live in his remote castle. The dramatic intensity increases as sinister secrets are gradually unveiled, bringing the opera to its haunting conclusion.
Sung in Hungarian, with subtitles available in English, French and German.
FEATURING:
Robert Lloyd
Elizabeth Laurence
The London Philharmonic
Conductor: Adam Fischer
Costume Designer: Anna Buruma
Designer: Bruce Macadie
Producer: Dennis Marks
Video Director: Leslie Megahey
