Richard Strauss' opera Elektra

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Richard_Strauss'_opera_Elektra

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:opera
gptkbp:basedOn	Sophocles' play Electra
gptkbp:composer	gptkb:Richard_Strauss
gptkbp:duration	about 100 minutes
gptkbp:firstPerformed	gptkb:Ernst_von_Schuch
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Der_Rosenkavalier
gptkbp:genre	one-act opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Richard Strauss' opera Elektra
gptkbp:language	gptkb:German
gptkbp:librettist	gptkb:Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal
gptkbp:mainCharacter	gptkb:Klytämnestra gptkb:Orest gptkb:Elektra gptkb:Chrysothemis gptkb:Aegisth
gptkbp:notableAria	Allein! Weh, ganz allein Ich kann nicht sitzen Orest! Orest!
gptkbp:notableConductor	gptkb:Esa-Pekka_Salonen gptkb:Georg_Solti gptkb:Christian_Thielemann gptkb:Herbert_von_Karajan gptkb:Karl_Böhm gptkb:Zubin_Mehta gptkb:Dimitri_Mitropoulos gptkb:Erich_Leinsdorf gptkb:Fritz_Reiner
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau
gptkbp:notableMezzoSoprano	gptkb:Waltraud_Meier gptkb:Martha_Mödl
gptkbp:notableProduction	Patrice Chéreau, 2013 Aix-en-Provence Festival
gptkbp:notableRecording	gptkb:Birgit_Nilsson,_Georg_Solti,_Vienna_Philharmonic_(1966) gptkb:Inge_Borkh,_Karl_Böhm,_Dresden_Staatskapelle_(1957)
gptkbp:orchestration	large orchestra
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Salome
gptkbp:premiereDate	25 January 1909
gptkbp:premiereLocation	gptkb:Dresden_State_Opera
gptkbp:publisher	gptkb:Adolf_Fürstner
gptkbp:setting	Mycenae, ancient Greece
gptkbp:singer	gptkb:Inge_Borkh gptkb:Wolfgang_Windgassen gptkb:Birgit_Nilsson gptkb:Nina_Stemme gptkb:Astrid_Varnay gptkb:René_Kollo
gptkbp:style	expressionist
gptkbp:theme	madness revenge family tragedy matricide
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Sophocles'_Electra
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7