Lost in Bluebeard's Castle
What's behind Door Number 7? Bluebeard and his bride prepare to find out.When Béla Bartók and librettist Béla Balázs took on the themes of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard's Castle," they were determined to transform the folk legend into a meditation on its own psychological sources. And the resulting one-act, largely due to Bartók's atmospheric score, remains one of the haunting classics of the ch…