Name: Elektra
Start: 2022-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-02-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grand-Théâtre

Organization

Dirigent

Jonathan Nott

Regisseur

Ulrich Rasche

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Sara Schwartz

Romy Springsguth

Licht ontwerper

Gerrit Jurda

Choreograaf

Jonathan Heck

Yannik Stöbener

Justus Pfankuch

Dramaturg

Stephan Müller

Koor meester

Alan Woodbridge

Zanger

Mezzo-soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Klytämnestra

Soprano

Ingela Brimberg

Elektra

Sara Jakubiak

Chrysothemis

Tenor

Michael Laurenz

Aegisth

Baritone

Károly Szemerédy

Orest

Bass

Michael Mofidian

Der Pfleger des Orest

Elise Bédènes

Die Vertraute

Mayako Ito

Die Schleppträgerin

Julien Henric

Ein junger Diener

Dimitri Tikhonov

Ein alter Diener

Marion Ammann

Die Aufseherin

Contralto

Marta Fontanals-Simmons

Erste Magd

Ahlima Mhamdi

Zweite Magd

Céline Kot

Dritte Magd

Iulia Elena Surdu

Vierte Magd

Gwendoline Blondeel

Fünfte Magd

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Others

Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève

Orchestra

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Genève

Zwitserland

The opera Elektra composed by Richard Strauss and performed at Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon. Their daughter, Elektra, lives for the day when her father's death will be avenged. Like a curse, the vendetta must be fulfilled, but is Elektra capable of committing the irreparable?

At Grand Théâtre de Genève, the cogs of revenge are set in motion by director Ulrich Rasche, who imprisons the characters of Elektra in a spectacular scenic device: a steel tower weighing almost twelve tons in perpetual rotation. In the pit, conductor Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande confront the musical challenges of Strauss' intoxicating one-act score. The female characters at the centre of the drama are sung by three artists of the highest calibre: Ingela Brimberg as Elektra, Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Clytemnestra.

Streamed on OperaVision on 18 March 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 18 September 2022:
https://operavision.eu/en/library/per...

CAST Electra: Ingela Brimberg Clytemnestra: Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Chrysothemis: Sarah Jakubiak Aegisthus: Michael Laurenz Orest: Karoly Szemeredy Orest's tutor: Michael Mofidian The confidante: Elise Bédènes The trainbearer: Mayako Ito A young servant: Julien Henric An old servant: Dimitri Tikhonov An overseer: Marion Ammann Five maids: Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Ahlima Mhamdi, Céline Kot, Iulia Elena Surdu, Gwendoline Blondeel Chorus: Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus Orchestra: Orchester de la Suisse Romande Music: Richard Strauss Text: Hugo von Hofmannsthal Conductor: Jonathan Nott Director: Ulrich Rasche Associate Director: Dennis Krauss Set Designer: Ulrich Rasche Costume Designer: Sara Schwartz, Romy Springsguth Lighting Designer: Michael Bauer Choreographers: Jonathan Heck, Yannik Stöbener, Justus Pfankuch Chorus Master:Alan Woodbridge
Dramaturg: Stephan Müller

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Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon. Their daughter, Elektra, lives for the day when her father's death will be avenged. Like a curse, the vendetta must be fulfilled, but is Elektra capable of committing the irreparable?

At Grand Théâtre de Genève, the cogs of revenge are set in motion by director Ulrich Rasche, who imprisons the characters of Elektra in a spectacular scenic device: a steel tower weighing almost twelve tons in perpetual rotation. In the pit, conductor Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande confront the musical challenges of Strauss' intoxicating one-act score. The female characters at the centre of the drama are sung by three artists of the highest calibre: Ingela Brimberg as Elektra, Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Clytemnestra.

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Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon. Their daughter, Elektra, lives for the day when her father's death will be avenged. Like a curse, the vendett...

Conductor Jonathan Nott presents Elektra's new production, on view from January 25 to February 6, 2022 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. 
 https://www.gtg.ch/saison-21-22/elektra/ 

 A cult director for his extraordinary visual and ritual productions, Ulrich Rasche comes to the opera for the first time with a giant iron palace, half prison tower, half execution machine. For this crazy world of violence and revenge, Richard Strauss overwhelms his listeners with masses of sound, sometimes frenetically romantic, sometimes wildly expressionistic.

Electra is the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, king and queen of Mycenae. To avenge the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia, Electra’s sister, the queen murders the king who has returned victorious from Troy, as well as his mistress while they’re at it. Agamemnon’s vengeful murder calls for vengeance in turn. As easy as the murder of the king was for the queen and her lover, all the more difficult it is for Electra to kill her mother. Revenge splutters in the house of the Atreids. Orestes, Electra’s brother, who has been banished and is languishing far from his homeland, is then called back to carry out the murderous act in his sister’s stead. Murder is after all a man’s business. The cunning and manipulative Electra waits throughout the opera for her brother to carry out their blood feud. The wheels of vengeance are set in motion by a frenzied mechanical: Ulrich Rasche. Now become a cult director in German-speaking countries with his unusual productions, both visual and ritual, he is making his first foray into both opera and the French-speaking world. Already in 2018, in Munich, he staged Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s original play in a palace that was half prison tower and half execution machine. This iron giant, something never before seen on an opera stage, will have its workings enlarged and refined for Geneva. The stage moves constantly, shuffling zones of despair around and creating death traps and cells. In this world of violence and revenge gone mad, there is no escaping the curse of the Atreids. As for Strauss’ music, its hypercomplexity is nourished by more than 50 identifiable motifs (also to the ear); they create references to characters, intentions, atmospheres and affects. In addition to these, various musical styles and languages are alternated and mixed, making Strauss’ score one of the most intense ever. In addition, there is a huge orchestral apparatus – more than 100 musicians are required – and an extremely broad tonality that bears the traces of the musical breakthrough of the early 20th century. The highly-strung style of composition is at times reminiscent of the ‘steel storms’ of the impending World War I, and the masses of sound overwhelm the listen-er, with violent expressionism and frenetic late Romanticism one after the other. They make up the cosmos of violence that prevails in this story. Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande are the ideal partners to face this musical challenge. The dramatic triangle of women will be carried by three outstanding per-formers of the German repertoire: in the title role, the renowned Swedish soprano Ingela Brimberg, who excels in Wagnerian and Straussian roles. Beside her, the US-born Sara Jakubiak plays her sister Chrysothemis and, opposite them, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner brings their mother Clytemnestra to life. We look forward to their dizzying vocal duels!

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