Oxalys, Johannes Witt , Katrien Baerts, Thomas Bauer, Lise Bruyneel

Bluebeard’s Castle is one of the early 20th century’s most intense and incisive operas. Béla Bartók and his librettist have beautifully managed to capture the depths to which the human soul can sink, in a piece that impresses and unsettles you from the first note to the very last. 

Siebe Thijs has adapted this work for a cast of fifteen musicians, which lends the music an intimacy that borders on the invasive. This intimacy is reinforced by the eerie video that Lise Bruyneel made especially for this performance, in the catacombs of the Brussels courthouse.

Co-production Muziekcentrum De Bijloke