Bluebeard's

Salonen's study of the Hungarian composer's orchestral music is not totally comprehensive, but the Philharmonia's five programmes between now and November do cover most of the major scores, including the three piano concertos, both the ballets, The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince, and a semi-staging of Bartók's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle.

This week's new live music 2011

Every time he begins a new chapter, though, I feel like the duke's new bride in Bluebeard's Castle, flinging open doors only to be baffled by its contents.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson 2010

Mr. Polgar's most famous role was probably that of Bluebeard in Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle," for which Mr. Polgar won the Grammy Award for best opera recording in 1999 along with soprano Jessye Norman, conductor Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Laszlo Polgar, 63, Hungarian bass and Zurich Opera member, dies 2010

On Bluebeard's marriage to Little Red Riding Hood: The speculation is based on the Fables comic book, but the premise is entirely wrong.

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 6 Sean Levin 2010

But by far the best of all is the Ernst Lubitsch film Bluebeard's Eighth Wife from 1938, with Gary Cooper as the much-married Bluebeard and Colbert as his not-so-blushing bride.

Michael Giltz: Is There Finally Some Oscar Hope for Star Trek?" 2010

I've only read The Penelopiad and the Bluebeard's Egg novella.

The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace 2007

This opus, subtitled, "While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók's 'Bluebeard's Castle,'" was set (by Rolf Borzik) in what looked like an abandoned house with leaf-strewn floors occupied by a sisterhood of downcast women arrayed in thrift-shop-like gowns and loutish men in shirts and slacks.

Pina Bausch, Visionary 2009

The White House has turned into Bluebeard's castle and a Kremlin of constant official lies.

The Betrayal 2008

At any rate, I was particularly taken by "Bluebeard's Daughter."

My Syllabus Theodora Goss 2008

Friday: The readings for Friday are "Blue Beard," again from the The Blue Fairy Book, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Bluebeard's Daughter," which can be found in her collection The Cat's Cradle-Book, but also in several collections of modern fairy tales.

Gothic Fairy Tales Theodora Goss 2008