Judith Kuckart

Blaubart wartet begins in the same place as Bartók's only opera, based on the one-act play of Béla Balàzs, "Duke Bluebeard’s Castle". Bluebeard 's last wife, Judith, managed to open the doors locked by Bluebeard, driven by love and compassion, curiosity and jealousy. She penetrates into what makes him who he is, and into what he remembers. Bluebeard refuses to open the last door himself, but gives Judith the key to it. She uses it, and opens the last door. The women whom he loved before her emerge. She is frightened. The memory of love is stronger than love itself.
Blaubart wartet takes place in a hotel, because hotels are full of long corridors with many locked doors. Behind each one hides a different story, a different secret.
This is a play about secrets and their discovery, about love and the memory of love; a play about the question "What really takes place between men and women?".

"Bluebeard is waiting for us, and we are waiting for a Bluebeard who never comes. But his women scurry through the rooms, whispering their dreams, talking about their love stories with the man who is eternally absent and never-to-be-grasped, who only takes on shape in the memories of the women. " (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)