Strauss: Elektra
1980•1h 50m•Released
Music
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.
Director
David Stivender
Writer
Hugo von Hofmannstahl
Languages
German
Studio
Deutsche Grammophon
Cast
Mignon Dunn
Clitemnestra
Birgit Nilsson
Elektra
Leonie Rysanek
Crisotemis
Robert Nagy
Egisto
Donald McIntyre
Orestes
John Cheek
Tutor de Orestes
James Levine
Conductor
MET Orchestra
Production
Company
Deutsche Grammophon
Company
The Metropolitan Opera
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