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BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Opera in 1 Act (Sung in German with Japanese Supertitles)
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| <STAFF> |
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| Libretto by |
: Béla Balázs |
| Music by |
: Béla Bartók |
| Artistic Director |
: Kiyoshi Igarashi |
| Conductor |
: Taijiro Iimori |
| Stage Director |
: Götz Friedrich |
| Scenery |
: Hans Schavernoch |
| Lighting Designer |
: Olaf-Siegfried Stolzfuß |
| Costume Designer |
: Lore Haas-Jelusic |
| Assistant Stage Directors |
: Saskia Kuhlmann / Yasuko Sawada |
| Stage Manager |
: Masahiko Onita |
| Assistant Conductors |
: Katsuhiko Abe / Jun Fujimoto |
| Orchestra |
: The Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra |
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| Presented by |
: Agency for Cultural Affairs / New National Theatre, Tokyo |
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| <CAST> |
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Fr. 24 |
Sun. 26 |
Mon. 27 |
Wed. 29 |
| Duke Bluebeard |
Richard Cowan |
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| Satoru Aoto |
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| Judith |
Kristine Ciesinski |
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| Misako Watanabe |
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| Prologue |
Tadahiko Hirano |
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| <PERFORMANCES> |
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| November, 2000 |
Friday 24 |
Sunday 26 |
Monday 27 |
Wednesday 29 |
| 3:00pm |
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| 7:00pm |
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The theatre opens 60 minutes before the curtain rises. |
| <TICKET PRICES> |
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| Type |
Seat S |
Seat A |
Seat B |
| Price |
¥10,500 |
¥6,300 |
¥3,150 |
To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm)
Seat Z(¥1,500) is sold only on the performance day at the Box Office and a part of Ticket Pia Offices.
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 Bartók's
only opera is a mysterious and fantastic drama of light and shade.
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), one of the composers that represent the 20th century, left masterpieces, including "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" and piano concertos, which are filled with sharp tension. But he wrote only three pieces of theatre music and of these, "Bluebeard's Castle" is his only operatic work. Though there are only two characters in this drama apart from a Prologue, and it takes only one hour to perform the entire work, the elaborate and well-defined music that is characteristic of Bartók fills the one hour performance. This is a work in which a stage director can fully display his/her abilities. We hope you will enjoy an illusion of dreams and realities as produced by Götz Friedrich, a leading figure in German operatic circles.
Synopsis
Judith, who visits Duke Bluebeard's old castle, earnestly begs him to open seven mysterious doors one by one. A torture room, armory, treasure room, flower garden, and other unexpected scenes continue to appear. When the last door is finally opened, the three wives of Duke Bluebeard emerge from the door and Judith is filled with awe at their beauty. Duke Bluebeard dresses Judith with fabulous jewels and receives her as his fourth wife. Fascinated, Judith disappears through the seventh door.
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