Thomas Søndergård is an opera man. Yes, he’s proved himself a skilled interpreter of orchestral repertoire during his three seasons as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, especially with ...

Timpanist Ryan DiLisi and Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill will be featured at the May 22 and 24 concerts.

Béla Bartók’s only opera, the fantastical one-act masterpiece Bluebeard’s Castle is a mysterious encounter between two characters, Duke Bluebeard and his new wife, Judith. In the castle, Judith not ...

The Minnesota Orchestra will present Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle on May 8 and 9, 2026 at Orchestra Hall, led by Music Director Thomas Søndergård. The performances mark the launch of the Orchestra ...

Houston Symphony has scheduled only two performances of Béla Bartók’s magnificent opera Bluebeard’s Castle. One occurred last night, Saturday, and the final performance is Sunday matinee. This review ...

Back in 2009, English National Opera presented a dark production by Daniel Kramer of Bartók’s one-act opera about Duke Bluebeard and his new wife Judith; its eerie, creepy images of imprisoned ...

Robert Lepage’s production of these two one-act operas drips with blood.

This week at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the two halves of the program were like night and day — or day and night, to put them in order. How do you solve a problem like “Bluebeard’s Castle”?

No one was expecting rings of perfumed smoke to billow through Davies Hall at the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of “Prometheus”. In tandem with perfumers Mathilde Laurent and pianist Jean Yves ...