Strauss: Elektra
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives for one reason, to kill her mother, Klytämnestra, and her stepfather, Ae...
Top Cast
Mignon Dunn
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Birgit Nilsson
Elektra
Leonie Rysanek
Crisotemis
Robert Nagy
Egisto
Donald McIntyre
Orestes
John Cheek
Tutor de Orestes
James Levine
Conductor
MET Orchestra
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