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Status: Released

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1989

Rating: 1989-01-01

Run Time: 1h 49m

Original Language: English

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Production Countries: Austria

Production Companies: Vienna State Opera , Arthaus Musik , RM Associates


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Synopsis

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.


Main Cast

Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado

Self - Conductor

Age : 80 | Popularity : 9%

Éva Marton

Éva Marton

Elektra

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Brigitte Fassbaender

Brigitte Fassbaender

Klytemnästra

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Cheryl Studer

Cheryl Studer

Chrysothemis

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

James King

James King

Aegisth

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Franz Grundheber

Franz Grundheber

Orest

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Self - Orchestra

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%


Crew

Department Role Name
Directing Director
Brian Large
Brian Large
Harry Kupfer
Harry Kupfer
Writing Writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Sound Original Music Composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
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