Haunted houses, troubled children, ghost sightings (or hallucinations, both of which are bad), questionable child-elder relationships, mental health red flags Henry James was a man who knew creepy. Otherwise, get sucked in with the Leslie Megahey’s 1988 made-for-TV-movie version, where Ádám Fischer conducts Robert Lloyd and Elizabeth Laurence as Bluebeard and Judith. Kind of like a scary, abusive husband.įor a short taste, check out this trailer for Bluebeard’s Castle at Los Angeles Opera in 2014. The music, though, is the scariest thing about Bartòk’s opera the score sounds like something Bernard Herrmann would have written for a Hitchcock film, and it seems to waver unnaturally between uncomfortably soft and impossibly loud. There’s the creepy castle the weird, cold relationship between Bluebeard and his new bride the secret rooms the clear intimacy issues the dead ex-wives. We’ve got 6 operas to to satisfy your craving for creepy… Bluebeard’s Castle
Need a good weep? Take your pick of La bohème or Madama Butterfly.įeel like hearing your ghost stories sung? Fear not. Feel like something where good triumphs over evil? Settle in with The Magic Flute.
Opera’s great for a lot of reasons, but here’s the one we love the most: no matter what kind of release you need, you can get it, 110%, from an opera. 6 operas to creep you out Humour Jenna Simeonov Oct 31, 2016
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