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Elektra

Elektra (1989)

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Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

Updated Sep 18 2016

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Cast

Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Conductor
Eva Marton
Eva Marton
Franz Grundheber
Franz Grundheber
Brigitte Fassbaender
Brigitte Fassbaender
James King
James King
Cheryl Studer
Cheryl Studer
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Crew

Brian Large
Brian Large
Director
Harry Kupfer
Harry Kupfer
Director
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Original Music Composer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Writer

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