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Orest – Elektra – Staatsoper Hamburg
Orest – Elektra – Staatsoper Hamburg
April 19 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Gründerzeit: In this bourgeois family, no one will find salvation. Their lives become a living hell. Elektra – the first part of the Strauss trilogy designed for the Hamburg State Opera by director Dmitri Tcherniakov – is a psychological exploration of the self-destruction of a family clan. Tcherniakov’s shift in focus from myth to family is no accident: Strauss saw a spoken theater production of the ancient myth in 1903, a free adaptation by Hofmannsthal, who subsequently became his brilliant librettist for six operas. Even in their debut work, Strauss and Hofmannsthal dissected what lurked behind the bourgeois facade of Viennese refinement in their time: the abyss. Revenge against Elektra and Orestes’ father will destroy them all.
The tragedy premiered on January 25, 1909, at the Royal Opera in Dresden. The Hamburg production premiered on November 28, 2021.
The tragedy premiered on January 25, 1909, at the Royal Opera in Dresden. The Hamburg production premiered on November 28, 2021.
The first part of director Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Strauss trilogy is a psychological exploration of the self-destruction of a family clan. The shift in focus from ancient myth to family is no accident: Strauss and Hofmannsthal, in their debut work premiered in Dresden in 1909, already dissected what lurks behind the bourgeois facade of the Gründerzeit era: the abyss.
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