Richard Strauss Elektra
Opera in one act, Op. 58
Text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocle' tragedy
Sung in German
New production
PREMIERE
- 05 August 1996, 20:30
- 08 August 1996, 20:30
- 15 August 1996, 20:30
- 22 August 1996, 20:00
- 25 August 1996, 20:30
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Lorin Maazel, Conductor
Keita Asari, Stage director
Ichiro Takada, Shigeaki Tsuchiya, Set Design
Hanae Mori, Costume Design
Yuji Sawada, Lighting
Dietrich D. Gerpheide, Chorus Master
Hildegard Behrens, Elektra, her daughter
Karen Huffstodt, Chrysothemis, her daughter
Leonie Rysanek, Doris Soffel, Klytämnestra
Kenneth Riegel, Aegisth
John Bröcheler, Orest
Friedemann Kunder, Pfleger
Gerlinde Lorenz, The Overseer
Therese Waldner, The Confidante
Karin Wieser, The Trainbearer
John Horton Murray, A Young Servant
Markus Marquardt, An Old Servant
Elzbieta Ardam, First Maidservant
Yvonne Wiedstruck, Second Maidservant
Martina Borst, Third Maidservant
Irmgard Vilsmaier, Fourth Maidservant
Jennifer Trost, Fifth Maidservant
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic