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Article: Bluebeard's Castle/Erwartung.(Opera review)
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Fifteen years after their Canadian Opera Company premiere in Toronto in 2003, Robert Lepage's stagings of Schoenberg's Erwartung and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle finally made it to Quebec City, where L'Opera de Quebec's magnificently performed double bill was enthusiastically received Oct. 18 with well-deserved ovations.
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In Lepage's vision, the interior of Bluebeard's castle, represented by a sinister hall, was more reminiscent of a prison than a princely home. The seven doors that Judith begs him to open were symbolized by keyhole projections onto the wall. The audience never sees what's hidden behind those doors, but is let to ...
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