Bartók and Bánffy: Opposites and Complementaries
Bartók and Bánffy: Opposites and Complementaries

Summary/Abstract: In our January issue, we published the first part of Zsuzsa Szebeni’s essay on the stagecraft of Count Miklós Bánffy, novelist, draughtsman, politician, and Royal Commissioner of the Hungarian Opera during the First World War. That piece was called The Legend of the Palette of Miklós Bánffy, and looked at his stage and costume designs for productions of Mozart, Beethoven and Weber, with special regard to colour. In this next part, Zsuzsa Szebeni casts her eye at Bánffy’s stage and costume designs for productions of Béla Bartók, which he himself commissioned from the great modern composer: The Wooden Prince and Bluebeard’s Castle.

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