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Tenor

Christopher Lemmings

Bill

Contralto

Manuela Custer

Sally

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Diego Matheuz

Stage director

Fabio Ceresa

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Massimo Checchetto

Costume designer

Giuseppe Palella

Lighting designer

Fabio Barettin

Chorus master

Claudio Marino Moretti

Baritone

Gidon Saks

David

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Geraldine

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Mattia Agatiello

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Bluebeard

Karl-Heinz Macek

Bard

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A Hand of Bridge

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A Hand of Bridge Barber,S

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A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is a one-acter by Samuel Barber on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and the shortest opera regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. Two unhappily married couples of the American upper-middle class are playing a hand of bridge, during which each character sings an arietta uncovering his/her inner desires.

Bluebeard’s Castle (premiered in Budapest in 1918 after a row of rejections and remakes) counts as Bartók’s response to French musical impressionism, particularly to Paul Dukas’ treatment of the same subject as Ariane et Barbe-bleu (1907). The well-known horror tale about a
serial woman-killer is given a happy end of sorts, inasmuch all the Duke’s wives survive in splendid seclusion within his mysterious castle.

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A Hand of Bridge by Barber, From (2020/2020), Directed by Fabio Ceresa,, Conductor Diego Matheuz, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy

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