TRAILER | ELEKTRA Strauss – Grand Théâtre de Genève

Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon. Their daughter, Elektra, lives for the day when her father's death will be avenged. Like a curse, the vendetta must be fulfilled, but is Elektra capable of committing the irreparable?

At Grand Théâtre de Genève, the cogs of revenge are set in motion by director Ulrich Rasche, who imprisons the characters of Elektra in a spectacular scenic device: a steel tower weighing almost twelve tons in perpetual rotation. In the pit, conductor Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande confront the musical challenges of Strauss' intoxicating one-act score. The female characters at the centre of the drama are sung by three artists of the highest calibre: Ingela Brimberg as Elektra, Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Clytemnestra.

Streamed on OperaVision on 18 March 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 18 September 2022:
https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/elektra-grand-theatre-de-geneve

CAST

Electra: Ingela Brimberg
Clytemnestra: Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Chrysothemis: Sarah Jakubiak
Aegisthus: Michael Laurenz
Orest: Karoly Szemeredy
Orest's tutor: Michael Mofidian
The confidante: Elise Bédènes
The trainbearer: Mayako Ito
A young servant: Julien Henric
An old servant: Dimitri Tikhonov
An overseer: Marion Ammann
Five maids: Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Ahlima Mhamdi, Céline Kot, Iulia Elena Surdu, Gwendoline Blondeel
Chorus: Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Music: Richard Strauss
Text: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Director: Ulrich Rasche
Associate Director: Dennis Krauss
Set Designer: Ulrich Rasche
Costume Designer: Sara Schwartz, Romy Springsguth
Lighting Designer: Michael Bauer
Choreographer: Jonathan Heck, Yannik Stöbener, Justus Pfankuch
Chorus Master: Alan Woodbridge
Dramaturg: Stephan Müller

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