Hanns Nocker (Sire de Barbe-Blueue) ; Anny Schlemm (Boulotte) ; Werner Enders (King Bobeche) ; Ruth Schob-Lipka (Queen Clementine) ; Ingrid Czerny (Princess Hermia) ; Manfred Hopp (Prince Saphir) ; Rudolf Asmus (Popolani) ; Helmut Polze (Count Oscar) ; Hans-Otto Rogge (Alvarez) ; Irmgard Arnold (Isaure) ; Evelyn Bolicke (Heloise) ; Eva-Marie Baum (Eleonore) ; Christa Noack (Rosalinde) ; Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Blanche) ; Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin ; musical direction, Karl-Fritz Voigtmann. Filmed in 1973. Booklet with program notes in German and English (24 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Special features: script segments, sketches and drafts and performance sgements of "Bluebeard," Komische Oper 1964 ; interview with Walter Felsenstein regarding filming of "Bluebeard" (1973) ; interview with Walter Felsenstein on production of "Bluebeard (1963) ; picture gallery: international guest performances of "Bluebeard."
Summary:
Bluebeard meets and marries Anne who becomes suspicious of Bluebeard when she finds evidence of his murders shortly after their wedding. Van Sepper then, in graphic detail, tells Anne the stories of his former wives' lives and deaths.
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