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Bluebeard's castle Torture
- Title
- Bluebeard's castle [graphic] : Torture / R. Ter-Arutunian.
- Author
- Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992.
- Publication
- [1952?]
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Details
- Description
- 1 drawing on tracing paper : ink, watercolor, color; 26 x 19 cm.
- Summary
- Costume design drawing depicting three male? figures, their heads hooded in black. Two wear leggings made of strips of fabric, and wooden planks strapped horizontally to their chests; both brandish whips. One figure is seen in profile, the other (judging by the position of his feet) in back view. The third figure, also seen in back view, wears a similar chest piece and an apron-like garment that falls from waist to heels.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Signed at lower left.
- Inscribed: For Bill. Rouben.
- Source (note)
- William Crawford
- Biography (note)
- New York City Opera presented the first fully staged American production of Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's castle in 1952. The opera included only two singing characters. One of its scenes was set in a torture chamber.
- Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 1920-1992, was born of Armenian parentage in Tblisi, Georgia, and studied in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He has designed sets and costumes for dance, opera, drama, television, and film.
- Call Number
- *MGZGD Ter R Blu 1
- OCLC
- 824936315
- Author
- Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992.
- Title
- Bluebeard's castle [graphic] : Torture / R. Ter-Arutunian.
- Imprint
- [1952?]
- Biography
- New York City Opera presented the first fully staged American production of Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's castle in 1952. The opera included only two singing characters. One of its scenes was set in a torture chamber.Rouben Ter-Arutunian, 1920-1992, was born of Armenian parentage in Tblisi, Georgia, and studied in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He has designed sets and costumes for dance, opera, drama, television, and film.
- Local Note
- For another drawing of the Torture costume, see: *MGZGB Ter R Blu 2.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; William Crawford, 1995.
- Local Subject
- Opera ballet. Bluebeard's castle.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGD Ter R Blu 1