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Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, [1] which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 25 January 1909.
Apr 19, 2020 · Elektra’s wild revenge dance. Synopsis: The two sisters fall into each other’s arms. Chrysothemis hurries to her brother and Elektra collapses dead after a wild dance. The famous, surreal dance scene with the ecstatic music begins in the recording at 8:30 a.m.
- Dresden, 1909
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after his tragedy Elektra based on Sophocles' Greek play.
- Clytemnestra, wife and murderess of Agamemnon (mezzo-soprano) - Aegisth, lover of Clytemnestra (tenor) - Elektra, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agam...
- A wonderful film version on DVD: DG with Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Caterina Ligendza and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau conducted by Karl Böhm and t...
Apr 13, 2022 · (Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) This is a review of the April 1st performance, the opening night of this production’s first revival at the Metropolitan Opera. To stage a successful production of Strauss’ “Elektra” is a monumental feat all its own, but to do it with such sophistication and finesse as the Metropolitan Opera’s Friday night performance is herculean. {…}
It is paradoxical. Although he went on to write many more operas, Elektra will always be considered Richard Strauss’ most modern work. In this astonishing work, he set the most intense and most complex emotions to music - revenge, guilt, madness, painful memories and the struggle for what is just. The score was so intense that the composer ...
A prime example is Richard Strauss’s Elektra, a searing masterpiece of early 20th-century theater that sets the title character on an inexorable path to a final cataclysm of violence. Patrice Chéreau, who directed the Met’s production, viewed this opera as a re-reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , with both title characters destroyed by the ...
Nov 1, 2011 · The Story Of 'Elektra' November 1, 2011 10:26 AM ET. As the opera opens, Elektra's father, King Agamemnon, is already dead, and the score begins with a powerful four-note theme to which Elektra ...
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Synopsis. King Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia for the prosperity of his kingdom and his wife, Klytemnestra, has grown to hate him for this act. Along with her paramour, Aegisthus, Klytemnestra murders Agamemnon and becomes worried that their other children Elektra, Chrysothemis, and Orestes will seek to avenge her crime.
