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25 January 1909. ( 1909-01-25) Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden. 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.
Elektra d Makam Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton, 1869. Dalam mitologi Yunani, Elektra ( Bahasa Yunani: Ἠλέκτρα) adalah seorang putri di kerajaan Argos. Dia adalah anak Raja Agamemnon dan Ratu Klitemnestra, dan merupakan saudara kembar Iphigeneia dan Khrisothemis, juga saudara dari Orestes . Ada juga seorang nimfa bernama Elektra yang ...
Overview. Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere of visionary director Patrice Chéreau’s 2016 staging of Elektra. Now she returns to Strauss’s unhinged heroine, opposite one of today’s most in-demand artists, soprano Lise Davidsen, as her sister, Chrysothemis. Donald Runnicles is on the podium for one ...
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 ...
discography. This is a list of recordings of Elektra, a one-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The work was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on 25 January 1909.
Synopsis: Elektra. Elektra is prevented from carrying out her customary mourning of her father by the presence of the maids, who spitefully discuss her behavior. Only one stands up for her, admiring her as a king's daughter and pitying the way she is treated, but she is forced inside by the overseer and beaten.
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