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"The story of the violent revenge of Elektra, mouring the murder of her father by his wife and her lover, transformed by Richard Strauss into a vivid and emotionally compelling score."
"Spectacle musical sur scène enregistré en direct au Opernhaus Zürich les 30 novembre et 4 décembre 2005."
"Composer Richard Strauss transforms the story of the violent revenge of Elektra mourning the murder of her father by his wife and her lover, into a vivid and emotionally compelling score."
"Produced, Herbert Graf ; music, Richard Strauss ; libretto, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal."
"Richard Strauss's opera based on the Sophocles play."
"Met Music Director James Levine brings aching lyricism and dramatic intensity to one of opera's most gripping scores. The great Hildegard Behrens takes on the towering title role of a murdered king's daughter obsessed with avenging her father's death. Brigitte Fassbaender is magnetic as Klytämnestra, Elektra's mother, and Deborah Voigt delivers a moving portrayal of Chrysothemis. Donald McIntyre as Orest and James King as Aegisth complete the all-star cast. This performance is taken from the DVD box set celebrating 40 Years of James Levine at the Met."
"A musical interpretation of Sophocles' tale of the violent revenge that Elektra exacts for the murder of her father by his wife and her lover."
"Videocassette release of the opera by Richard Strauss based on Sophocles' play about the violent revenge of Elektra."
""The opera opens with an abattoir, the five maids puling dripping chunks of carcasses into barrows and closes with a more human slaughterhouse as Orestes raises his blood drenched hands to heaven"--Cover."@en
"The story of the violent revenge that Elektra exacts for the murder of her father by his wife and her lover."
"Richard Strauss' gripping musical interpretation of Sophocles' tale of horror and revenge is given a compelling production by the innovative East German director, Harry Kupfer."
"Présentation de l'opéra en un acte de Richard Strauss, livret d'Hugo von Hofmannsthal (d'après l'Électre de Sophocle), par les chœurs et l'orchestre de l'Opéra de Vienne, dirigés par Claudio Abbado et dans une mise en scène de Harry Kupfer. Principaux rôles chantés par Eva Marton, Brigitte Fassbänder, Cheryl Studer, Franz Grundheber et James King."
"The characters of Greek mythology remain as moving to us today as they were to the first audiences who heard them thousands of years ago. In one sweeping act, Strauss has brilliantly transformed the story of the violent revenge of Elektra, mourning the murder of her father by his wife and her lover, into a vivid and emotionally compelling score."
""The opera opens with an abattoir, the five maids puling dripping chunks of carcasses into barrows and closes with a more human slaughterhouse as Orestes raises his blood drenched hands to heaven""
"Elektra, daughter of the king of Mycenae, has gone mad. Her mother ill treats her and the court ignores her. Elektra blames her mother's lust for power for her father's death. With the help of her sister, she vows vengence for this ill deed."
"Spectacle musical sur scène enregistré en direct au Metropolitan Opera de New York en janvier 1994. Avec Hildegard Behrens (Elektra) ; Deborah Voigt (Chrysothemis) ; Brigitte Fassbaender (Klytamnestra) ; James King (Aegisth) ; Donald McIntyre (Orest) ; Ellen Rabiner, Kaaren Erickson, Jane Shaulis, Elizabeth Byrne, Theresa Cincione (Five maid servants) ; Janet Hopkins (Overseer of the servants) ; Judith Goldberg (The confidant) ; Jean Rawn (The trainbearer) ; Philip Creech (A young servant) ; Richard Vernon (An old servant) ; Herbert Perry (The guardian of Orest) ; Orchestre et choeur du Metropolitan Opera ; James Levine, chef d'orchestre."
"The story of the violent revenge of Elektra, mourning the murder of her father by his wife and her lover."
"Live performance of the tragic opera of the fall of the house of Agamemnon, taped at Lincoln Center, February 16, 1980."
"Live from the Zurich Opera House, a modern production of Richard Strauss's one-act opera. After her father Agamemnon has been murdered by her mother, Klytemnestra, and her mother's lover, Aegistheus, Elektra swears revenge."
"Clytemnestra, Queen of Thebes, has murdered her husband Agamemnon with the help of her lover Aegisthus. Elektra, her daugther, spirits her brother Orestes away to a foreign country, until the day comes when they can exact a terrible revenge upon the murderers."
"Elektra, daughter of the king of Mycenae, has gone mad. Her mother ill treats her and the court ignores her. Elektra blames her mother's lust for power for her father's death. With the help of her sister, she vows vengence for this ill deed. Opera in one act. Film is presented probably with a commentary."
"Richard Strauss' harsh but brilliant retelling of Sophocles' ancient tragedy of passion, murder and revenge within the royal family of Mycenae."
"In Mycenae, Elektra, daughter of Klytemns̃tra who has murdered her husband Agamemnon, dreams of the return of her brother Orest, who will avenge the crime. When strangers bring news that Orest is dead, Elektra in vain askes her sister Chrysothemis to help avenge the murder. Once alone, Elektra digs up the axe that killed her father when one of the strangers interrupts. She realizes that he is her brother Orest, disguised. He kills Klytemns̃tra and when Klytemns̃tra's lover arrives, Elektra lights his way into the palace where Aegisthes is killed by Orest. Elektra, in an ecstatic dance of triumph, falls dead."
"Operavoorstelling, opgenomen in januari-februari 2010 in het Festspielhaus Baden-Baden."
"Queen Clytemnestra, mother of Elektra, and her lover Aegistheus have murdered the king. Elektra wants revenge and hopes to enlist her sister Chrysothemis and her brother Orestes. But Chrysothemis renounces vengeance, and Orestes lives abroad."
"A musical interpretation of Sophocles' tale of horror and revenge."