Seeing double: Bluebeard’s Castle at Opéra de Lyon

By Zoltán Szabó, 29 March 2021

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“the orchestra played with polished finesse under their experience conductor, Titus Engel”

Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 26 March 2021

Bartók, Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Opéra de Lyon

Titus Engel, Conductor

Andriy Zholdak, Director

Daniel Zholdak, Set Designer

Simon Machabeli, Costume Designer

Károly Szemerédy, Bluebeard

Ève-Maud Hubeaux, Judith

Victoria Karkacheva, Judith

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.