At Symphony Center, Esa-Pekka Salonen recently led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s rarely performed opera Bluebeard’s Castle (as well as, on another evening, in Bartók’s popular Concerto ...

Not to be overshadowed by the adrenalin charges of the Budapest Festival Orchestra the previous evening, the BBC Symphony ...

“Bluebeard’s Castle,” which opened at Opera San José on Saturday, Feb. 15, offers plenty of both genres. Moreover, General Director Shawna Lucey brings a feminist perspective to the work ...

Premiered in Budapest in 1918, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle was based on a play by Béla Balázs, itself based on a 17th-century fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Interestingly, the Dallas ...

Scream queens and "Freaks" at the 31st James River Film Festival.

Baritone Zachary Nelson and soprano Maria Natale star in Opera San José’s all-new production of Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Photo: David Allen/Opera San José In Béla Bartók’s only opera, ...

The Baron of Retz and veteran of the Hundred Years’ War confessed to monstrous crimes of torturing and murdering children.

La Sonnambula: West Bay Opera presents its first production of Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece “La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker),” fully staged. Final performances are Feb. 22-23 at Lucie ...

That mouldy old 1920s tome, with Bluebeard warning his visitor “Be bold ... As a child I was regularly paralysed with fear by Creepy Castle (1975), a wordless picture book illustrated by John S.