Elektra (opera by Richard Strauss)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Elektra_(opera_by_Richard_Strauss)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:Elektra_(play_by_Sophocles)
gptkbp:category German-language operas
Operas by Richard Strauss
1909 operas
Operas based on works by Sophocles
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Richard_Strauss
gptkbp:duration about 100 minutes
gptkbp:firstPerformed gptkb:Ernst_von_Schuch
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Der_Rosenkavalier
gptkbp:genre tragic opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Elektra (opera by Richard Strauss)
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Klytämnestra
gptkb:Orest
gptkb:Elektra
gptkb:Chrysothemis
gptkbp:notableAria Allein! Weh, ganz allein
Ich kann nicht sitzen
Orest! Orest!
gptkbp:notableFor complex orchestration
intense psychological drama
shortest Strauss opera
gptkbp:notableProduction Patrice Chéreau, 2013 Aix-en-Provence Festival
Harry Kupfer, 1986 Bayreuth Festival
Herbert Wernicke, 1997 Salzburg Festival
gptkbp:notableRecording gptkb:Inge_Borkh,_Karl_Böhm,_Dresden_Staatskapelle_(1957)
Leonore Vautrin, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1952)
Birgit Nilsson, Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic (1967)
gptkbp:numberOfActs 1
gptkbp:orchestration large orchestra
gptkbp:precededBy Salome (opera by Richard Strauss)
gptkbp:premiereDate 25 January 1909
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:Dresden_State_Opera
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Adolf_Fürstner
gptkbp:setting Mycenae, ancient Greece
gptkbp:style expressionist
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Orest_in_Elektra
gptkb:Elektra_(play_by_Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7