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Richard Strauss Elektra

Opera in one act, Op. 58
Text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocle' tragedy

PREMIERE

  • 11 August 1964, 20:00

DATE

  • 17 August 1964, 20:00
  • 27 August 1964, 20:00

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CREATIVE TEAM

Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
Herbert von Karajan, Stage director
Teo Otto, Set Design
Teo Otto, Costume Design

CAST

Astrid Varnay, Elektra, her daughter
Hildegard Hillebrecht, Chrysothemis, her daughter
Martha Mödl, Klytämnestra
James King, Aegisth
Eberhard Waechter, Orest
Tugomir Franc, Pfleger
Judith Hellwig, The Overseer
Hildegard Rütgers, The Confidante
Anja de Haan, The Trainbearer
Richard van Vrooman, A Young Servant
Siegfried Rudolf Frese, An Old Servant
Helen Watts, First Maidservant
Margarete Sjöstedt, Second Maidservant
Cvetka Ahlin, Third Maidservant
Lisa Otto, Fourth Maidservant
Lucia Popp, Fifth Maidservant

Choir of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic




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