Strauss: Elektra

Strauss: Elektra (1980)


  • Genre: Music
  • Release Date: 1980-02-16
  • Runtime: 1h 50min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Directors: David Stivender, Herbert Graf.

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Summary

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives for one reason, to kill her mother, Klytämnestra, and her stepfather, Aegisth, the murderers of her father, Agamemnon. In contrast to Elektra's vengeful obsession, her sister Chrysothemis desires to get on with life. When their long-missing brother, Orestes, returns to do the deed, Elektra celebrates with a dance of death and, her sole purpose in life fulfilled, dies. Strauss joined the hermetic plot to music of the utmost opulence, violent and yearning by turns, evoking the cardinal principles of Greek tragedy - pity and terror.

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  • Mignon Dunn

    as Clitemnestra
  • Birgit Nilsson

    as Elektra
  • Leonie Rysanek

    as Crisotemis
  • Robert Nagy

    as Egisto
  • Donald McIntyre

    as Orestes
  • John Cheek

    as Tutor de Orestes
  • James Levine

    as Conductor
  • MET Orchestra

    as
Directing David Stivender Director
Sound Richard Strauss Music
Writing Hugo von Hofmannstahl Writer
Directing Herbert Graf Director