Electra2.0004_StraussKupfer

Electra2.0004_StraussKupfer

Elektra libretto
OGCMA s.v. "Electra"
Classical Sources:
Aeschylus Choeph., 84-510
Sophocles Electra, passim
Euripides Electra, passim
Apollodorus Libr. Ep.2.169

Richard Strauss (comp.) and Hugo von Hoffmansthal (libretto), Elektra: Tragödie in einem Auszug, 1903 - 1908, opus 58; Wiener Staatsoper, Claudio Abbado (conductor), Harry Kupfer (director), performed and recorded 1989; DVD distributed by Ediciones del Prado S.A., DVD Opera Collection, 2004. Richard Strauss: Elektra.

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For libretto:
Electra2.0004_StraussLibretto

At right Éva Marton performs Elektra in the Wiener Staatsoper production of 1989.
Marton spoke about her experiences in this performance in "My Relationship with Richard Strauss' Music through Elektra," her inaugural ceremony into the Hungarian Academy of Arts, 2014. For a (sometimes awkward) translation, click here

Strauss Kupfer, Electra

Strauss’ Elektra is sung by

Éva Marton — Elektra

Brigitte Fassbänder — Klytämnestra

Cheryl Studer — Chrysothemis

James King — Aegisth

Franz Grundheber — Orest

and others

Claudio Abbado’s conducting of the Vienna State Opera.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.