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the arts desk

4 November 2021

reviews, news & interviews

First Persons: Susan Bullock, Gerald

Finley and Stephen Higgins on a

'Bluebeard's Castle' with a difference

How experience of dementia led to a unique take on Bartók's dark
masterpiece
by Theartsdesk

Susan Bullock and Gerald Finley in 'Bluebeard's Castle'Michaela Bodlovic
Tonight a version of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle launches in the intimate

surroundings of Stone Nest, a former Welsh chapel in London's West End. Its
conductor along with soprano Susan Bullock and baritone Gerald FInley, alternating
in the roles of Judith and Bluebeard with Gweneth Ann Rand and Michael Mayes,
discuss its special claim on our attention.

Stephen Higgins, conductor and co-founder of Theatre of Sound