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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
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 | | In 1911, Bela Bartók submitted an opera to a Hungarian National Competition. |
 | | A one-act work, this hour-long adaptation of a Charles Perrault fairy tale didn't win the contest, but nonetheless, Duke Bluebeard's Castle has gone on to become a genuine 20th-century masterpiece, and Bartók's dream of establishing a true Hungarian-language opera has been realized. |
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