From the archives
ELEKTRA
AVAILABLE UNTIL: MARCH 30
RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 47 MINS
OPERA | LIVE RECORDING FROM 2010
Richard Strauss stuns the audience with his hair-raising drama about Elektra, obsessed with avenging her father’s murder. Based on Sophocles’ classic tragedy, Elektra it is a potent study in female rage, but also a moving account of a woman who has lost her footing. It is an emotional rollercoaster of blood and disaster, a high-tension saga from the first note to the last.
The raging one-act opera Elektra, written in 1909 and influenced by Sigmund Freud’s new ideas on family relationships and the subconscious, is the first collaboration realised by the iconic composer/librettist duo Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This production is by Staffan Valdemar Holm, who has also directed the award-winning Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Swedish Opera. A live reording from 2010 with the trio Marianne Eklöf (Klytaemnestra), Katarina Dalayman (Elektra) and Emma Vetter (Chrysothemis) in the leading parts. With ladies from the Royal Swedish Opera Chorus and the Royal Swedish Orchestra under the direction of Ralf Weikert. ”World class” said Swedish newspaper DN at the premiere in 2009!