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Richard Strauss: Elektra (1980)

ALL 02/16/1980 (en) Music 110 Min
  • Release
    02/16/1980
  • Production
    Deutsche Grammophon, The Metropolitan Opera
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  • Original title
    Richard Strauss: Elektra
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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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  1. Mignon Dunn

    Clitemnestra

  2. Birgit Nilsson

    Elektra

  3. Leonie Rysanek

    Crisotemis

  4. Robert Nagy

    Egisto

  5. Donald McIntyre

    Orestes

  6. John Cheek

    Tutor de Orestes

  7. James Levine

    Conductor

  8. MET Orchestra

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Casts : 8 , Crews : 4

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Richard Strauss: Elektra (1980) 110 Min

ALL 02/16/1980 (en)
Music
  • Release 02/16/1980
  • Production
    Deutsche Grammophon, The Metropolitan Opera
  • Original title Richard Strauss: Elektra
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. David Stivender, Herbert Graf

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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