Event listing: Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle / The Miraculous Mandarin – premiere | Müpa: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall | Fri 7 Oct 2016 at 19:30

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Müpa: Béla Bartók National Concert HallKomor Marcell u. 1., Budapest, Central Hungary, 1095, Hungary

Dates/times in Budapest time zone

Festival: CAFe Budapest

Programme

Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)

Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Libretto by Béla Balázs

Performers

Zoltan Kocsis	Conductor
Csaba Káel	Director
Éva Szendrényi	Set Designer
Anikó Németh	Costume Designer
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Balázs Vincze	Choreography
Katalin Ujvári	Dancer	Mimi
Péter Koncz	Dancer	The Mandarin
Andrea Szántó	Mezzo-soprano	Judith
Gábor Bretz	Bass	Bluebeard

Reviews of Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Op.11 directed by Csaba Káel

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Müpa: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest, February 2018

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Bartók double bill at Müpa Budapest

Julien Hanck, 10th October

Hungarian critic Sandor Hevesy once declared that Bluebeard’s Castle was “far too dark”. Yet, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Miraculous Mandarin are probably the summation of his orchestral journey. And what better experience then making it to Budapest, to hear it in its birthplace?

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