Contenu
- Introduction
- PART I. Bartok, Balazs, and the Creation of a Modern Hungarian Opera
- 1. Bartok, Balazs, and the Creation of Bluebeard's Castle
- 2. Bluebeard as Theater: The Dramatic Heritage of Balazs's Symbolist Play
- PART II. Music and Drama in Bluebeard's Castle
- 3. The Music of Bluebeard's Castle
- 4. Analysis of Individual Scenes
- Prologue
- Torture Chamber
- Armory
- Treasury
- Garden
- Bluebeard's Domains
- Lake of Tears
- Former Wives
- 5. Bartok's Revisions to the Opera, 1911-1917
- PART III. Contextual Studies
- 6. The Bluebeard Story in Turn-of-the-Century Literature
- 7. Judith: The Significance of a Name
- Appendix. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Notes on the text by Bela Balazs, circa 1915