Timpanist Ryan DiLisi and Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill will be featured at the May 22 and 24 concerts.

Béla Bartók wrote his lone opera in 1911, a decade after Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” introduced the “subconscious” into art.

A brand-new production that blends Bela Bartók's 1918 one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle with 1915's Four Songs (Vier Lieder) by his contemporary Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler - and immerses audiences in ...

Hungarian mezzo-soprano Klara Palankay, 85, acclaimed for her role as Judith in Bela Bartok’s opera “Bluebeard’s Castle,” died Wednesday in a Budapest hospital where she was being treated for a cold, ...

Is it a feminist parable, a misogynistic attack or a satire of desire? Tim Ashley gets to grips with the enigmatic Bluebeard Bluebeard's Castle, Béla Bartók's only opera, opens with a narrator ...

Illness struck the premiere of ENO’s new semi-staging of Béla Bartók’s opera. The role of Judith was due to be sung by an ailing Allison Cook, who was replaced by not one, but two performers: fellow ...

Do you remember the hype surrounding the artist Dale Chihuly when he came to Buffalo in the mid ’90’s? The exhibit was the talk of the town, and people who had not made a trip to the Albright-Knox in ...