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An electric Elektra in Montreal, full of wondrous sound and fury

By Patricia Maunder, 23 November 2015
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“Reminiscent of Rodin's Thinker, but twisted and crouched into a forbidding mass”
Reviewed at Place des Arts: Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal on 21 November 2015
Programme
Strauss R., Elektra
Performers
Opéra de Montréal
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Alain Gauthier, Director
Lise Lindstrom, Elektra
Nicola Beller Carbone, Chrysothemis
Agnes Zwierko, Klytaemnestra
Alan Held, Orest
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Chœur de l'Opéra de Montréal
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Patricia Maunder
Patricia Maunder
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist for more than 20 years, contributing to publications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK including The Sydney Morning Herald and Opera magazine. She is based in Melbourne, but considers Montreal her 'other' hometown after living there in 2012-16. For more about Patricia, visit her website.