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Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. (Book Reviews).
Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. By Carl S. Leafstedt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [viii, 246 p. ISBN 0-19-510999-6. $45.]
In 1440, Gilles de Laval, Baron of Rais, was burned alive for crimes including the sodomization and murder of some 140 children. De Laval is often considered the historical Bluebeard, the grisly protagonist of the tale in which a man kills a succession of wives for looking into a forbidden room. First published by Charles Perrault in 1697, the story has a long history in musical theater, most memorably as the subject of Bela Bartok's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle. As Carl Leafstedt ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera....