Erwartung is paired with Bluebeard's Castle in a captivating double bill at the Canadian Opera Company. Directed by Robert Lepage, the production features mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as Judith and ...

Robert Lepage’s production of these two one-act operas drips with blood.

The pairing of two short or one-act works may be a more familiar concept from the ballet season, but it can be just as powerful in the world of opera, too. The textbook example is of course Mascagni’s ...

Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition ...

Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” is a tragic parable of human isolation. Béla Balázs’ libretto recounts Bluebeard’s resistance to his new bride Judith’s efforts to open the doors of his castle — that is, ...

Operatic scenery usually portrays the landscape or the living space that characters inhabit. For the two works on Seattle Opera’s upcoming double bill, however, the setting is interior: What we are ...

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If Freud's hysterical patients were a musical form, what would they sound like? Robert Lepage's classical and widely travelled 1993 Canadian Opera Company production of Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, ...

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The first two decades of the twentieth century were a remarkable time for the development of opera. In reaction to the excesses of the Wagnerian and verismo schools of opera, in Germany and Italy ...