Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle at a
Met screening in Pleasant Hill,
or shall we say Boss Blackscruffy's
Warehouse,
an even darker retelling of the Charles Perrault Histoires ou contes du temps passé: La Barbe bleue (1697)
than Bartok librettist Bela Belazs managed,
with the
titular character ending up as a
mass-murdering necrophiliac behind the Monty Hall Let's Make a Dealesque Door No. 7 (to say nothing of poor punky-sensuous Judith - dead, rather than merely imprisoned). Powerful staging, reframing the sounds as a beautiful, seductive slasher score, with anyone fleeing the theatre likely to be objecting to the visuals rahter than the by-now-mainstream-modernist music...
A once-upon-a-time
progress to
DVC Music Theory at the front end, greeting the Theoreticians with an amazingly prescient Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth as Dictation / Board Harmony,
staying in the
local area before
heading out to the opera. High 66 at home (8 Days 70's, 29 Days 60's / 12 Days 50's since January 1), 67 in Pleasant Hill -- somewhere in there finishing up Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of 3) Women: X. Collette (13 pages total).
