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Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle & Debussy’s La Damoiselle Élue
Let us explore together what love can and cannot conquer.

Puget Sound Concert Opera brings you a rare opportunity to hear these two beautiful and unique pieces in one evening. Prepare yourself for the ultimate “tell all” as you join young bride, Judith coming home to her bridegroom’s dark Castle for the first time. But this Castle is actually his mind and the seven locked doors within hold the different aspects of his identity. As Judith begins to open Bluebeards locked doors, she does bring light and love to being. But what will the final door bring? Sung in English and arranged especially for four hands piano, Bluebeard’s Castle will stay with you long after you leave.

To contrast the darkness of Bartok’s music, the heavenly sounds of Debussy’s La Damoiselle Élue will shine forth and chase all darkness from our souls. Debussy sets Rossetti’s poem “The Blessed Damozel” for female chorus with two soloists. Rosetti, inspired by Poe’s “The Raven”, chooses not an earthly lover grieving a lost
soul but an angelic soul taken too soon. La Damoiselle Élue, leans out over the golden bar of heaven to observe the man she loves below. They both pray that love will reunite them and so she waits until he comes.

March 6, 2010 ~ 4:00pm Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church, 425 spring Street, Friday Harbor, WA
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March 12, 2010 ~ 7:30pm First United Methodist Church of Bellevue, 1934 108th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA
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March 14, 2010 ~ 3:00pm Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 911 Stewart Street, Seattle, WA
Suggested Donation: $15 General or $10 Student/Senior (LESS THAT HALF THE PRICE OF MOST OPERA)
University of Washington Student get in free to the March 12th, Bellevue show.
Puget Sound Concert Opera (PSCO) incorporates an innovative concert opera format, allowing
audience members to see, hear and feel the music up close as if they were on stage. PSCO also
provides a personalized educational experience with detailed information about each opera and
composer located on the PSCO website and links for further research.
www.pugetsoundconcertopera.org
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