Bluebeard's Castle

Beethoven and Bartók

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra present Hungary’s greatest opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, to the Royal Albert Hall, heard alongside Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 7.

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 7 in A major (36 mins)

interval

Béla Bartók

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (55 mins)

Performers

Judith: Dorottya Láng

Duke Bluebeard: Krisztián Cser

Budapest Festival Orchestra

conductor: Iván Fischer