A Guide to Bartók's Gory 100-Year-Old Thriller Opera (No Spoilers!)

[@madmarcus1382]

Super analysis. I'm an old guy, an opera lover, and have several degrees in music, yet I learned things from this video. Thank you very much. ❤

[@gerritmaas2200]

This is both so entertaining and informative! You're a great advocate for this opera.

[@skilsuvulcan9770]

I live in Iran, and after the revolution, things like opera have kind of gone sideways. The internet is my only contact with it. I have always loved opera, but the internet always gives me far less than what I want to know. I truly appreciate your work and watch and learn from it. Thank you

[@mrdlb1975]

You’re amazing! So loved this. Thank you.

[@AKnipp412]

My fav recording is with Cornelia Wallisch and Peter Fried, conducted by Peter Eotvos.

[@brianscotpatterson2101]

Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin is wild as well.

[@tubeblower7391]

She’s back!

[@angelaparker4110]

My significant other says that his psychology prof said that Froid’s main contribution to psychology was treating it as a science. My old therapist said that psychology theory is ‘de jour’. No one really knows how the mind works.

[@Reina.Nijinsky]

14:27 can’t get over the fact how much you look like Princess Leia ❤ very pretty!

[@benjaminwehtje7354]

Highfive Bartok!

[@cliffarroyo9554]

I thought Judit was a mezzo role, it was recorded by Tatiana Troyanos and Christa Ludwig (and other roles of Elisabeth Laurence from the film included Erda and Fricka).

[@LeBasfondMusic]

I never comment (lol), but this was a lot of fun! I am seeing this one for the first time next year and I am excited!

[@rockwellfighter6421]

1:01 Duke Beerbird... Duke Bearbird... Whatever way you spell (and so you interpret) the character's mispronounced name - it's all hilarious)

[@TheDbird90]

Are you a native German? I wish I could pronounce German words as well as you.

[@helengrives1546]

I know the children’s story. Can’t remember how it ended. Maybe except of sister Ana, who looks out of the window in the tower in hope of help. Ooh, this is plain psychopath shizzl.😂😅. What archetype? What makes it that women grow up taught they can change or love. Maybe this is just the twisted way patriarchy works. You have to believe it otherwise you can’t be with the heroes. The great conquerors and their diluted spinoffs. There is a command in these stories, because women seldom write and men neither about ugly hideous women who get the nice guy or the wealth. Only if substantial in wealth they might get such a story, but then no obligation to the woman or let’s say wife. Thus the wife must play nicely, naive and innocent or become an accomplice. The most allusive thing is that psychopathy is never assumed. It prepares the mind for normalcy. Psychopaths are master manipulators and often quite charming. But saying this, luckily almost never encountered in real life, although top politics has rather many in display. Master camouflaged, nobody notices them. Intriguing choice. She could have committed suicide. The fact that she didn’t (of course she is in the writers power) shows she forwent her own agency knowing the truth and inevitable death. She would then outsmarted him, denying him the one thing he had pleasure in, tormenting him.