Based on a French folktale, Bela Bartók’s 1918 one-act opera tells the story of a fictional duke who brings his hastily wed wife, Judith, to his foreboding fortress for the first time where she uncovers dark secrets.
Many honeymoons begin at Flynn Cruiseport in South Boston, but not this week. The Boston Lyric Opera will be docked there through Sunday, March 26, with its new production of Hungarian composer Bela Bartók’s 1918 “.” Based on a French folktale, it tells the story of a fictional duke who brings his hastily wed wife, Judith, to his foreboding fortress for the first time, and the honeymoon is definitely over.
“She notices that there are seven doors and she says, ‘Dear husband, can I go through those doors and see what's there?’ And he says ‘No, no, not a good idea.’ But he loves her and wants to make love to her so he eventually relents,” says Bogart. As she makes her way through, she finds the walls are bleeding. There’s a torture chamber with branding irons, a room full of his riches, a lake of tears and more.
“You can see these photographs of them in distorted shapes, hands and arms being inverted strangely,” Awkward says. “So that's a theme that the wives have — is this like inverted hands, these gestures that look a little unhuman-like. And throughout the show…they get progressively more unhuman, progressively more unhinged, especially as Judith and Bluebeard are also getting more unhinged.”
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