Salzburger Festspiele – Elektra

Sonntag, August 16, 2020
8:00 pm
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Salzburger Festspiele - Elektra

Richard STRAUSS, Elektra

Tragedy in one act, Op. 58 (1909)
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after his drama of the same name after Sophocles’ tragedy
New production

Creative Team

Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Director
Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Sets and Costumes
Felice Ross, Lighting
Denis Guéguin, Video
Claude Bardouil, Choreography
Christian Longchamp, Dramaturgy

Ensembles

Vienna Philharmonic
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Ernst Raffelsberger, Chorus Master

Cast

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Klytämnestra
Aušrine Stundyte, Elektra
Asmik Grigorian, Chrysothemis
Michael Laurenz, Aegisth
Derek Welton, Orest
Tilmann Rönnebeck, Orest’s Tutor
Matthäus Schmidlechner, A Young Servant
Sonja Šarić, The Overseer
Bonita Hyman, First Maidservant
Evgenia Asanova*, Second Maidservant
Deniz Uzun, Third Maidservant
Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Fourth Maidservant
Natalia Tanasii, Fifth Maidservant

* Participant of the Young Singers Project – supported by KÜHNE FOUNDATION