Hundred-year-old Bluebeard puts the frighteners on Dublin
Bluebeard’s Castle
By Béla Bartók
Irish National Opera
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
The Slavic style that dared to challenge Italian/German operatic culture in the early 20th century never really made a breakthrough into Ireland, a land firmly girded inside Dublin with Puccini and Verdi, and eventually in Wexford with Donizetti.
So it’s greatly pleasing to at last see masterpieces of the genre – such as this superb little shocker – being unleashed on our ...