Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

Blaubarts / Bluebeard


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Blaubarts / Kékszakáll
Foreign language / English title
Blaubarts / Bluebeard
Subtitle
Mono-chamberopera with prologue in two pictures
Year of composition
2011

Type
Opera
Number of players
6
Instrumentation
B.Bar. solo - cl. - perc. (marimba) - pnino. - strings: vl., vlc.
Duration
20 min

Text
BÁN, Zoltán András
Language
German
Commissioned by
Rupert Bergmann & Theater an der Wien
Premiere information
4 November 2011, Theater and der Wien, Vienna; Rupert Bergmann (B.Bar.), Anna Sushon (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Live video-recording, 2012 - Rupert Bergmann (B.Bar.), THReNSeMBle, Balázs Horváth (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
Libretto based on the work of Zoltán András Bán: "Blaubarts Geburt" (The Birth of Bluebard)

German translation by Wilhelm Droste