Elektra

Elektra (1989)


  • Genre: Music, Drama
  • Release Date: 1989-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 49min
  • Production Company: Vienna State Opera
  • Production Country: Austria
  • Directors: Harry Kupfer, Brian Large.

Summary

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.

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  • Claudio Abbado

    as Self - Conductor
  • Éva Marton

    as Elektra
  • Brigitte Fassbaender

    as Klytemnästra
  • Cheryl Studer

    as Chrysothemis
  • James King

    as Aegisth
  • Franz Grundheber

    as Orest
  • Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

    as Self - Orchestra
Directing Harry Kupfer Director
Writing Hugo von Hofmannsthal Writer
Directing Brian Large Director
Sound Richard Strauss Original Music Composer

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