A double bill featuring the Teatro Real premieres of two works by Béla Bartók. Stage director Christof Loy returns after his Eugene Onegin and Arabella, among other successes, to explore the dark fairy world of this Hungarian composer, bringing together two of his key works and emphasising the connection between them: the power of true, infinite love.
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The miraculous Mandarin
One act pantomime ballet, Op. 19, Sz. 73
After Menyhért Lengyel’s story (1917)
Music by Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Music by Béla Bartók
Bluebeard's castle
Opera in one act
Libretto by Béla Balázs, after a Charles Perrault’s fairy-tale La Barbe bleu (1697)
Music by Béla Bartók
Premiered at Oper Köln on 27 November 1926 (The Miraculous Mandarin) and at Royal Budapest Opera on 24 May 1918 (Bluebeard’s Castle)
Production by Teatro Real, in co-production with Theater Basel
Artistic team
Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno
Director and choreography: Christof Loy
Set design: Márton Ágh
Costume design: Barbara Drosihn
Lighting design: Thomas Kleinstück
Chorus master: José Luis Basso
Cast
The Miraculous Mandarin
Mandarin: Gorka Culebras
The girl: Carla Pérez Mora
First tramp: Nicky van Cleef
Second tramp: David Vento
Third tramp: Joni Österlund
A libertine: Mário Branco
The poet: Nicolas Franciscus
Bluebeard's Castle
Duke Bluebeard: Christoph Fischesser
Judit: Evelyn Herlitzius
Prologue: Nicolas Franciscus
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
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