Strauss's Elektra
Philipp Stölz and Philipp M. Krenn (stage directors), Kirill Petrenko (conductor) – With Nina Stemme (Elektra), Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Elza Van Den Heever (Chrysothemis)...
Cast
Philipp Stölzl — Stage director, set designer, lighting designer
Philipp M. Krenn — Stage director
Franziska Harm — Set designer
Kathi Maurer — Lighting designer
Nina Stemme — Elektra
Michaela Schuster — Klytämnestra
Elza van den Heever — Chrysothemis
Program notes
Under the direction of Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic perform one of Richard Strauss’s most legendary operas in the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, with Nina Stemme in the title role alongside a star-studded cast including Michaela Schuster, Elza Van Den Heever and Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke.
Premiered in 1909, Strauss’s one act opera Elektra takes its storyline directly from the written play by Sophocles. Returning from the Trojan war, Agamemnon is assassinated by his wife, Klytämnestra and her lover, Aegis. Daughter of Agamemnon and Klytämnestra, Elektra and her younger brother, Oreste, are forced to flee from Mycenae. This collaboration of the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss is the first in a six part series, available to watch again and again on medici.tv!
