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Keith Warner’s Elektra in Prague has neither myth nor menace

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Reviewed at State Opera (Státní opera), Prague on 10 June 2016
Strauss R., Elektra
Roland Böer, Conductor
Keith Warner, Director
Boris Kudlička, Set Designer
Susan Bullock, Elektra
Rosalind Plowright, Klytaemnestra
Anna Gabler, Chrysothemis
Richard Berkeley-Steele, Aegisth
Károly Szemerédy, Orest
Michal Bragagnolo, Young Servant
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