Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók, Dg. 06 Nov. 2022, De (2022/2022), Director musical Adam Fischer

Judith left her past life behind for love of Duke Bluebeard. But darkness and freezing cold reign in his castle, and soon she suspects that he has a secret. It is hidden behind seven locked doors. Judith asks him to open one by one. The first six rooms are full of dark riddles, but in the seventh and last room she acquires terrible certainty... "Duke Bluebeard's Castle" is the first and only opera by Béla Bartók. But with her he created a masterpiece that still fascinates us to this day. Joseph Haydn, on the other hand, wrote 104 symphonies. Number 97 is one of his late and - one can rightly say - one of his most mature. Composed for a music-hungry audience in London, it still inspires today with wit, charm and many unexpected twists.