Name: Elektra
Start: 2020-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Felsenreitschule

Admin

Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Klytaemnestra

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Electra

Asmik Grigorian

Chrysothemis

Tenor

Michael Laurenz

Aegisth

Baritone

Derek Welton

Orest

Bass

Tilmann Rönnebeck

Orest's tutor

Matthäus Schmidlechner

A young servant

Sonja Šarić

The overseer

Contralto

Bonita Hyman

First maid

Evgenia Asanova

Second maid

Deniz Uzun

Third maid

Sinéad Campbell Wallace

Fourth maid

Natalia Tanasii

Fifth maid

Valeriia Savinskaia

The confidante

Verity Wingate

The trainbearer

Jens Larsen

An old servant

Conductor

Franz Welser-Möst

Stage director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set designer

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Video designer

Denis Guéguin

Lighting designer

Felice Ross

Choreographer

Claude Bardouil

Chorus master

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturge

Christian Longchamp

Katie Coventry

Salzburger Festspiele

Others

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

German

Elektra -  (Electra)

Salzburg

Austria

Felsenreitschule

Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festival stage in the title role, accompanied by the marvelous Ariane Baumgartner and Asmik Grigorian in the roles of Klytaemnestra and Chrysothemis, respectively.

Sophocles' masterwork, the epitome of Ancient Greek tragedy, continues to surprise and move us across the centuries in librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's stirring adaptation, directed here by a legend of the theatre. Stage director Krzysztof Warlikowski breathes new life into the myth of Elektra, daughter of Mycenaean king Agamemnon, assassinated after the Trojan Wars by his wife Klytaemnestra and her lover Aegisth. The heroine will stop at nothing to protect her banished younger brother Orest, seen as a threat to the throne, and avenge her father’s death...

Elektra Strauss,R

Public

English

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading