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Strauss: Elektra

(1980)

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1hrs 50m

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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Mignon Dunn as Clitemnestra

Mignon Dunn

** Clitemnestra

Birgit Nilsson as Elektra

Birgit Nilsson

** Elektra

Leonie Rysanek as Crisotemis

Leonie Rysanek

** Crisotemis

Robert Nagy as Egisto

Robert Nagy

** Egisto

Donald McIntyre as Orestes

Donald McIntyre

** Orestes

John Cheek as Tutor de Orestes

John Cheek

** Tutor de Orestes

James Levine as Conductor

James Levine

** Conductor

MET Orchestra as Unknown role

MET Orchestra

** Unknown role

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