Operafest Lisboa 2025

"Bluebeard's Castle"

Michael Powell

Cine-Opera

3 SEP | 19h

Cinemateca Portuguesa

With Norman Foster, Anna Raquel Sartre

Germany, 1964 - 60 min
Electronically subtitled in Portuguese | M/12

The only opera composed by Béla Bartók, with a libretto by Béla Balázs, premiered in 1918 in Budapest. Michael Powell based it on one of his most beautiful and least known films, marked by a delirious and fantastical visual style in which the colors "seem to construct the form itself." One of the very rare examples of opera in cinema, entirely accomplished and entirely magical.