Iolanta & Bluebeard'S Castle

This entry represents a pairing of two single-act operas—Tchaikovsky's *Iolanta* and Bartók's *Duke Bluebeard's Castle*—likely programmed together for thematic resonance (both explore isolation, blindness, and the limits of knowledge). The Metropolitan Opera mounted this double bill in 2015, suggesting it remains a viable repertoire choice for major houses seeking to pair contrasting works from different national traditions and compositional eras. However, the database record is severely underdeveloped: it conflates two distinct works under a single entry, lacks basic metadata (premiere dates, librettists, synopses), and contains no recording or streaming information. This appears to be a stub created during a bootstrap process rather than a fully researched intelligence document.