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ELEKTRA Innsbruck 2023 Angela Denoke, Aile Asszonyi, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Florian Stern
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Elektra
- Composer: Strauss Richard
- Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Tiroler Landestheater, Insnbruck, Austria
- Recorded: 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Angela Denoke, Aile Asszonyi, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Florian Stern, Andreas Mattersberger, Oliver Sailer, Dagmara Kołodziej-Gorczyczyńska, Qiong Wu, Sascha Zarrabi, Stanislav Stambolov, Jennifer Maines
- Conductor: Lukas Beikircher
- Orchestra: Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck
- Stage Director: Johannes Reitmeier
- Stage Designer: Thomas Dörfler
- Costume Designer: Michael D. Zimmermann
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tiroler Landestheater
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
With the production of a gripping masterpiece written by Richard Strauss, Johannes Reitmeier says goodbye to his Innsbruck audience after his successful eleven-year-long directorship.
As in Salome, the one-act tragedy by Strauss, which premiered in 1909, focuses on a woman: Elektra. Since Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus murdered her husband Agamemnon, her daughter Electra has been seeking revenge. Her brother Orestes is supposed to atone for the crime. But even after this deed is accomplished, Elektra finds no peace. In the middle of her ecstatic dance of joy, she collapses dead.
Inspired by attending an impressive performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play Electra, based on the Greek myth, Strauss considered setting it to music. Hofmannsthal was able to dispel his concerns about the similarity to his previously created Salome with the following words: “The color mixture seems to me to be so essentially different in both materials: in the Salome there is so much purple and violet […], in the Elektra one Mixture of night and light, black and light.”
Strauss implemented this atmosphere with timbres full of suggestive power. His music is described as “bizarre, sometimes screaming and seething.” With its uncompromising severity, it increases the intensity of Hofmannsthal’s outstanding literary work and creates a haunting opera evening that lasts for a long time.