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We're looking forward to seeing you at the Holland Center for Beethoven's Fifth and Bluebeard's Castle! Doors Open | 6:00PM Concert begins | 7:30PM Ticketing Your tickets will be available at wallet.ticketomaha.com. Simply log in with your Ticket Omaha credentials, find your QR code in the "My Events" tab, and present your code when you arrive. Please have your mobile tickets ready to be scanned when entering the venue. Your ticket can only be accessed at wallet.ticketomaha.com or picked up at will call. Contact Ticket Omaha at 402-345-0606 or email them at ticketomaha@o-pa.org with ticketing questions! Age Policy For the respect and consideration ...

Bluebeard pays a visit to his young lady neighbors and during a hunting party he declares his love to one of them. Bluebeard’s marriage. Bluebeard goes on a journey and warns his wife not to open a certain room. She cannot restrain her curiosity. But what a fright! Mrs. Bluebeard tries in vain to rub the bloodstains from the keys. She flees from her husband, who has discovered the bloodstains. Having reached the tower turret, she cries for help. Just as Bluebeard seizes his wife to behead her, her brothers rush to help, save her, and punish the cruel villain. Check out Bartok’s take on the psyche of this...

Judith arrives at Duke Bluebeard’s castle as his new wife, having left behind a safer, familiar life to be with him. She is struck at once by the chill darkness of the great hall and by the sense that the building itself is alive with secrets. Bluebeard urges her to accept the castle as it is and even offers her the chance to go while she still can, but Judith insists that love should bring light, warmth, and openness. She demands the keys to the seven locked doors that surround them, convinced that opening them will transform the castle and reveal the truth of the man she has chosen. Un...