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Elektra State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 14.Dec 2025 replace me !Elektra State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 17.Dec 2025 replace me !Elektra State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 20.Dec 2025 replace me !Elektra State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 23.Dec 2025 replace me !Electra, who is lonely inside and out, has renounced the world and is only seeking revenge:
Her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisth are to die for the murder of Elektra's father, Agamemnon. Clytemnestra, for her part, is tormented by anxious dreams and memories. Elektra is unable to win over her sister Chrysothemis to the plan to murder Clytemnestra and Aegisth. A mysterious stranger, who reveals himself to be her brother Orest, finally commits the deed. Elektra then dances a final, ecstatic dance.
From the very first moment, the music threatens, seethes and rages: in Elektra, premiered in 1909, Richard Strauss retold the ancient family story for his time. He wanted to contrast the "demonic, ecstatic Greekness" with a smoothed, classical view of history and push the musical power of intensification to the extreme - he went to the limits of the time in terms of harmony and polyphony. The starting point for his work was Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra drama, which Max Reinhardt staged in Berlin with the fascinating actress Gertrud Eysoldt in the title role.Influenced by the great psychological designs and studies of his time - Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer - Hofmannsthal created a modern, psychologically motivated work that allows an introspective view of the protagonists. It is not the great mechanics of fate that drive the characters, but rather their emotional feelings, traumas and identity ruptures.(Quelle: wiener-staatsoper.at)
