Richard Strauss's Elektra

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Richard_Strauss's_Elektra
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:Sophocles'_Electra
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Richard_Strauss
gptkbp:duration about 100 minutes
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Der_Rosenkavalier
gptkbp:genre tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Richard Strauss's Elektra
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:notableConductor gptkb:Georg_Solti
gptkb:Karl_Böhm
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Hans_Hotter
gptkb:Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau
gptkbp:notableLibretto gptkb:Hugo_von_Hofmannsthal
gptkbp:notableMezzoSoprano gptkb:Martha_Mödl
gptkbp:notablePerformance gptkb:Vienna_State_Opera
gptkb:Royal_Opera_House,_London
gptkb:Bavarian_State_Opera,_Munich
gptkb:Salzburg_Festival
gptkb:Metropolitan_Opera,_New_York
gptkbp:notableProduction Harry Kupfer (Berlin, 1986)
Herbert Wernicke (Salzburg, 1995)
Otto Schenk (Vienna, 1964)
Patrice Chéreau (Aix-en-Provence, 2013)
gptkbp:notableRecording Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Georg Solti (conductor), Vienna Philharmonic
Inge Borkh (Elektra), Karl Böhm (conductor), Dresden Staatskapelle
gptkbp:numberOfActs 1
gptkbp:orchestration large orchestra
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Salome
gptkbp:premiereDate 1909-01-25
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:Dresden_State_Opera
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Adolf_Fürstner
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Mycenae
gptkbp:singer gptkb:Inge_Borkh
gptkb:Birgit_Nilsson
gptkbp:style expressionism
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Greek_mythology
gptkb:House_of_Atreus
matricide
gptkbp:theme madness
revenge
family tragedy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Oresteia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5