Name: Elektra
Start: 2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Organization

Dirigent

Markus Poschner

Regisseur

Patrice Chéreau

Set designer

Richard Peduzzi

Kostuum ontwerper

Caroline de Vivaise

Licht ontwerper

Dominique Bruguière

Zanger

Soprano

Ricarda Merbeth

Elektra

Mezzo-soprano

Waltraud Meier

Klytämnestra

Vida Mikneviciute

Chrysothemis

Tenor

Stephan Rügamer

Aegisth

Baritone

Lauri Vasar

Orest

Bass

David Wakeham

Der Pfleger des Orest

Cheryl Studer

Die Vertraute

Die Aufseherin

Natalia Skrycka

Die Schleppträgerin

Siyabonga Maqungo

Ein junger Diener

Olaf Bär

Ein alter Diener

Contralto

Bonita Hyman

Erste Magd

Zweite Magd

Katharina Kammerloher

Dritte Magd

Anna Samuil

Vierte Magd

Roberta Alexander

Fünfte Magd

Gilles Bottacchi

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Others

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Duits

Berlijn

Duitsland

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Public

Engels

Approved

Wie ein Rufen aus der Vorzeit, mit betörender Musik und einem Text von archaisch-wilder Kraft, beschwört Richard Strauss’ »Elektra« den Zauber des Schaurig-D...

Elektra Strauss,R

Like a call issuing from a mythical distant past, Richard Strauss’ »Elektra« summons the magic of eerie gloom and archaic brutality. An almost inevitable »tremendous increase to the very end« (Strauss) in musical tension plunges the listener deep into Electra’s world, which is shaped by grief, pain, and thirst for vengeance. Humiliated and tormented by her family, Electra, the daughter of the king of Mycenae, devotes her life to a single obsessive goal: day in and day out, she invokes the memory of her father, who was murdered treacherously by her mother Clytemnestra and Clytemnestra’s lover Aegisthus, and she waits for the return of her brother Orestes, who is supposed to avenge his father’s murder. The deed must be paid back in kind. Vacillating between hatred, hysteria, weakness, hubris, deep sadness, obsession and sarcasm, Electra has lost every connection to the people around her. She is unkempt and has rejected her femininity.

In his monumental one-act opera for dramatic voices and a giant orchestra, inspired by the powerful eloquence of his perfectly matched librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the fin-de-siècle composer created a musical and psychological portrait that is extremely stirring in its expressiveness and overpowering in its tonal force. In Strauss’s own words, it brought him to the utmost limits of »psychological polyphony«

English

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