Bluebeard's Castle

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, first performed in 1918. The work employs a compact, psychologically driven musical language that blends late-Romantic orchestration with modernist harmonies and folk-influenced motifs, and it represents an important early example of Bartók's shift toward a more individual and modern idiom in his stage and vocal music.