Bluebeard (disambiguation)

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Bluebeard the title character in a 1697 fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Bluebeard can also refer to:

Contents 1 Literature 2 Opera 3 Theatre 4 Film 5 Music 6 Botany

[edit] Literature

• Bluebeard (novel), a 1988 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut

[edit] Opera

• Raoul Barbe-Bleue (Raoul Blue-Beard), a 1789 opera by French composer André Grétry
• Barbe-bleue (Blue-beard), an 1866 operetta by French composer Jacques Offenbach
• Chateau de la Barbe Bleue (The Castle of the Blue Beard), an 1851 operetta by Dutch-Belgian composer Armand Limnander
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariane and Blue-Beard), a 1907 opera, the only one written by French composer Paul Dukas
• A kékszakállú herceg vára ([Duke] Bluebeard's Castle), a 1918 one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók
• Ritter Blaubart (Sir Bluebeard [Bluebeard the Knight]), a 1920 opera by Austrian composer Emil Rezniček
• L'Ottava moglie di Barbablù (The Eighth Wife of Bluebeard), a 1940 opera by Italian composer Vito Frazzi

[edit] Theatre

• Ritter Blaubart (Sir Bluebeard [Bluebeard the Knight]), a 1796 comic melodrama by German dramatist Johann Ludwig Tieck
• La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleu (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife), a 1921 comedic play by French-Polish dramatist Alfred Savoir
• Bluebeard, a 1970 play by New York playwright Charles Ludlam

[edit] Film

• Barbe Bleu (Blue Beard), a 1901 short film by the French magician/filmmaker Georges Méliès
• Miss Bluebeard, a 1925 romantic comedy directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Bebe Daniels
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, a 1938 American film starring Gary Cooper
• Bluebeard (1944 film), a film by the cult director Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine
• Blaubart, released in the United States as Bluebeard, a 1951 German-French film directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Hans Albers
• Landru, released in the United States as Bluebeard, a 1963 French film directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner
• Bluebeard (1972 film), a film directed on European locations by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton
• Very Blue Beard, a 1979 Soviet animated film

[edit] Music

• Bluebeard (band), a Japanese band
• Bluebeard (album), the first full-length album by the band Bluebeard
• "Bluebeard", a song by Cocteau Twins from their 1993 album Four-Calendar Café
• "Bluebeard", a song by Combustible Edison from their 1996 album Schizophonic!

[edit] Botany

• Bluebeard, a common name for Caryopteris, in the mint family, Lamiaceae.