Double feature of Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi show Calgary Opera at its best

Double feature of Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi show Calgary Opera at its best

Blackbeard's Castl dark and enigmatic, while Gianni Schicch is the perfect comic opera. Both are handled beautifully.

Calgary Opera | Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi

Calgary Opera’s final offering of its 2024/25 season consisted of a double bill of two one-act operas, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. While these two operas occupy different sound worlds, both received their first performances in the same year: 1918. Much care and effort went into the production of both operas, and with excellent results, most notably in the visual and dramatic side of things. The production had a str…