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Hungarian State Opera: AuditoriumAndrássy út 22, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1061, Hungary
Dates/times in Budapest time zone
Performers
Hungarian State Opera
Balázs KocsárConductor
Balázs KovalikDirector
Csaba AntalSet Designer
Mari BenedekCostume Designer
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Hungarian State Opera Chorus
Szilvia RálikSopranoElektra
Atala SchöckMezzo-sopranoKlytaemnestra
Tímea TímárMezzo-sopranoKlytaemnestra
Adrienn MikschSopranoChrysothemis
Gábor BretzBassOrest
Antal CsehBassOrest, Orest's Tutor
Istvan HorvathTenorAegisth
Dániel PatakyTenorAegisth
Zsófia NagySopranoTrainbearer
Diána Ivett KissSopranoMaid 1
Zsófia KálnayMezzo-sopranoMaid 2
Melinda HeiterMezzo-sopranoMaid 3
Beatrix FodorSopranoMaid 4
Eszter ZavarosSopranoMaid 5
Mária FarkasrétiSopranoOverseer
Lusine SahakyanMezzo-sopranoConfidante
Gergely BiriTenorYoung Servant
Máté FülepBaritoneOld Servant

So many grandly constructed and amazingly nuanced scenes! Full of ambivalences, the initial kinship of the three female characters and the antagonism growing out of the insolubilities of life – paradox fusing into complexity. Flung from one perspective to the next, we can only agree with Klytämnestra: Was die Wahrheit ist, das bringt kein Mensch heraus: what the truth is, no man will ever unravel,” wrote Géza Fodor of Balázs Kovalik's production.

Richard Strauss wrote an overwhelming one-act masterpiece to Hofmannsthal's libretto, an opera of feminine tragedy. It is a faithful adaptation of the Greek tragedy, pitting reconciliation, revenge and madness stoked by a troubled conscience one against the other.

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