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Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Bela Bartok’s Opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”

“Unequivocal, uncompromising and still shocking”

ReviewsFeb 14, 2020by Neil NormanSadler's Wells, London

Pina Bausch's Bluebeard at Sadler's Wells, London

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