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Composed by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
WNO Revival
Sung in German with English supertitles
May 10, 13, 15, 18m, 21, 24, 27, 2008
The running time for this production is approximately one hour and 50 minutes.
Please note: This performance has no late seating and no intermission.
"...So powerful, so intense, so moving, and so brilliant that there’s no escape from its gravitational force once music director Heinz Fricke hits the initial downbeat."
~The Washington Times
Agamemnon, king of ancient
Mycenae, has been murdered by his wife and her lover. Obsessed with her father's death, Elektra will stop at nothing until his death is avenged, but when her brother returns from exile and carries out her wishes, the mental strain proves too much for her, as the opera culminates in a frenzied dance of vengeance.
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