Strauss: Elektra
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.
Year: 1980
Genre: Music
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon, The Metropolitan Opera
Director: David Stivender, Herbert Graf
Cast: Mignon Dunn, Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Robert Nagy, Donald McIntyre, John Cheek
Crew: David Stivender (Director), Richard Strauss (Music), Hugo von Hofmannstahl (Writer), Herbert Graf (Director)
Runtime: 110 minutes
Release: Feb 16, 1980
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Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: Deutsch
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : opera
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