Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Something of a rarity--an opera redesigned for film cameras, in lieu of being a filmed stage production per se--this 1989 work from director Leslie Megahey constitutes an interpretation of Bela Bartok's one-act 1911 opera BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE. The morose and macabre tale dramatises the sinister Duke Bluebeard's return to his secluded castle, with new wife Judith in tow, and Judith's subsequent discovery of the horrors that lurk within.