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There will be blood! Christine Goerke's Elektra stuns at the BBC Proms

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“her final lines to Aegisth dripped with girlish sarcasm”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 31 August 2014
Strauss R., Elektra (sung in German)
Semyon Bychkov, Conductor
Gun-Brit Barkmin, Chrysothemis
Christine Goerke, Elektra
Dame Felicity Palmer, Klytaemnestra
Robert Künzli, Aegisth
Johan Reuter, Orest
Hanna Hipp, Maid 3
Marie-Ève Munger, Maid 4
Iris Kupke, Maid 5
Miranda Keys, Overseer
Katarina Bradić, Maid 1
Zoryana Kushpler, Maid 2
Ivan Turšić, Young Servant
Jongmin Park, Orest's Tutor
Justin Way, Director
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