Esa-Pekka Salonen

42 pieces since 2009 — at 10 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

42 pieces
10 companies
18 years

1 piece as Chicago Symphony Orchestra — stats above show all coverage for Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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Girl next door

My first introduction to Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle was the musicologist Susan McClary’s infamous book Feminine Endings. Here, McClary likened her search of a feminist musicology to Judith’s journey through the seven doors; a journey that ends in Judith’s symbolic death.

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