ENO’s coupling of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is unconventional but inspired. Where Bluebeard throbs darkly with a slow-burning fuse, the Rite pulsates with instinctual life (enhanced here by the physicality of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s choreography).
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English National Opera: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, The Rite Of Spring (Evening Standard)