Inside Bluebeard's Castle

This is the first book-length examination of Bartók''s 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard''s Castle, one of the twentieth century''s enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bartók studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly...