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  • Venue London Coliseum, London
  • Performance dates Booking to 24 March 2024
  • Running time To be confirmed

English National Opera presents Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a haunting journey into darkness.

Bartok’s opera is as taut and gripping as a thriller, but it resists easy categorisation. At once a study of an obsessive, violent man and an allegory of the battle of the sexes, Bluebeard’s Castle is a powerful story that incites thought as well as suspense.

Presented as a semi-staged concert performance by two internationally acclaimed performers in an hour of gripping psychodrama. This production is a two-hander, with award-winning Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw singing Judith and Canadian baritone John Relyea, one of today’s finest basses, as Bluebeard. It is conducted by Martyn Brabbins, ENO’s Director of Music.

Book Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Tickets now and see this gripping thriller on the London Coliseum stage.

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is booking from 21 March 2024 until 24 March 2024 at the London Coliseum.

As Judith unlocks room after room in the castle of her new husband, Duke Bluebeard, we follow her deeper and deeper into the recesses of his troubled imagination.

Her descent takes us through a torture chamber, an armoury, a treasury and a garden, until we find a mysterious seventh chamber which holds her fate.

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Stars and Creatives

Who is in the cast of Duke Bluebeard's Castle?

The cast of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle features Natalya Romaniw (Judith) and John Relyea (Bluebeard). 

Who are the creative team of Duke Bluebeard's Castle?

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is conducted by Martyn Brabbins, ENO’s Director of Music

Venue Information

London Coliseum , St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES

Nearest Tube or Train: Leicester Square (Northern line, Piccadilly line), Charing Cross (Northern line, Bakerloo line), Embankment (Northern line, Bakerloo line, District line, Circle line)

Nearest Buses: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 77a, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176

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