Event listing: Elektra | Wiener Staatsoper | Event is in the past

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Wiener StaatsoperOpernring 2 / Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Dates/times in Vienna time zone

Programme

Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)

Performers

Vienna State Opera
Ingo Metzmacher	Conductor
Uwe Eric Laufenberg	Director
Rolf Glittenberg	Set Designer
Marianne Glittenberg	Costume Designer
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Andreas Grüter	Lighting Designer
Elena Pankratova	Soprano	Elektra
Waltraud Meier	Mezzo-soprano	Klytaemnestra
Gun-Brit Barkmin	Soprano	Chrysothemis
Johan Reuter	Baritone	Orest
Norbert Ernst	Tenor	Aegisth
Monika Bohinec	Mezzo-soprano	Maid 1
Margarita Gritskova	Mezzo-soprano	Maid 2
Ulrike Helzel	Mezzo-soprano	Maid 3
Caroline Wenborne	Soprano	Maid 4
Ildikó Raimondi	Soprano	Maid 5
Donna Ellen	Soprano	Overseer
Simina Ivan	Soprano	Confidante
Zoryana Kushpler	Mezzo-soprano	Trainbearer
Benedikt Kobel	Tenor	Young Servant
Marcus Pelz	Bass	Old Servant
Ryan Speedo Green	Bass	Orest's Tutor

Reviews of Elektra directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg

****1

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, April 2015

***11

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, October 2018 (Deutsch)

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Laufenberg’s Elektra a disappointment in Vienna

Jonathan Sutherland, 5th December

German theatre director Uwe Eric Laufenberg freely incorporates some of Stanley Kubrik’s horror story concepts into his Elektra, but in ignoring both Sophocles and Strauss, is a long way from shining.

***11