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Elektra (1989)

ALL 01/01/1989 (en) Music, Drama 109 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1989
  • Production
    Vienna State Opera, Arthaus Musik, RM Associates
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  • Original title
    Elektra
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

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  1. Claudio Abbado

    Self - Conductor

  2. Éva Marton

    Elektra

  3. Brigitte Fassbaender

    Klytemnästra

  4. Cheryl Studer

    Chrysothemis

  5. James King

    Aegisth

  6. Franz Grundheber

    Orest

  7. Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

    Self - Orchestra

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 4

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Elektra (1989) 109 Min

ALL 01/01/1989 (en)
Music, Drama
  • Release 01/01/1989
  • Production
    Vienna State Opera, Arthaus Musik, RM Associates
  • Original title Elektra
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

  1. Brian Large, Harry Kupfer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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