opera notebook

some operas I have seen on video

Béla Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle (1918)
libretto by Béla Balázs
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1989

I doubt Samuel Ramey owned a shirt in those days — I doubt Samuel Ramey
owned a shirt
in those days

Conductor: James Levine
Director: Göran Järvefelt
Set Designer: Hans Schavernoch

Bluebeard: Samuel Ramey
Judith: Jessye Norman

Sung (extremely well by Ramey and Norman) in English.