Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

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Published by The Old Stile Press

Libretto for the Opera in One Act by Béla Balázs
English performing version by John Lloyd Davies

Images by Susan Adams

374 × 285 mm
56pp

ISBN: (978) 0907664741

150 copies signed by Susan Adams and by John Lloyd Davies

“The story of Bluebeard has a long history, from Perrault’s Fairy Tales through Maeterlinck, and is deeply embedded in the dark storytelling of the early twentieth century. Béla Balázs, heavily influenced by the French Symbolists, wrote a play which inspired his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to create a truly Hungarian opera. The music and the libretto in their turn have drawn from Susan Adams a sequence of images. Each page evokes the unfolding pathos of the events that the walls of Duke Bluebeard’s castle have witnessed.” The Old Stile Press