Elektra - The Metropolitan Opera (2016) - Elektra - The Metropolitan Opera (2016)

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New production

Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Teatro all Scala, Milan; the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; the Finnish National Opera, Helsinki; the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin; and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducts.

More information is available on the opera house's official website.

Schedule

April 14, 2016 20:00:00

April 18, 2016 20:00:00

April 23, 2016 20:00:00

April 26, 2016 20:00:00

April 30, 2016 13:00:00

May 04, 2016 20:00:00

May 07, 2016 20:00:00

Casting

Patrice Chéreau

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Waltraud Meier

Nina Stemme

Adrianne Pieczonka

Burkhard Ulrich

Eric Owens

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Klytämnestra

Elektra

Chrysothemis

Aegisth

Orest

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