Lélekkapu. A kékszakállú herceg vára Kolozsvárt 2006 őszén
Soul Portal: Bluebeard’s Castle in Cluj/Kolozsvár, Autumn 2006

Summary/Abstract: Béla Bartók was inspired by the text of Béla Balázs when writing his opera titled Bluebeard’s Castle, which had its premiere in 1918 in Budapest. The Hungarian Opera of Cluj presented his work in Autumn 2006, under the direction of György Selmeczi. The opera orchestra and the soloists (János Szilágyi – Bluebeard, Mária Molnár – Judit, Zsolt Bogdán – the minstrel) have given outstanding performances, and the originality of the direction was enhanced by the images of memory – the wonderful women, who seem insignificant in everyday life – and the representations of the psychological depths. After this modern rendition of the opera, Miklós Bánffy’s 1918 Budapest version of Bluebeard’s Castle has also been reconstructed in Cluj, with the singers and the orchestra of the 2016 version. This essay analyses the 2006 production in a dramatopoetic context, based on the reminiscences of the involved artists and of the author.

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