Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Ksenia Vyaznikova

Klytaemnestra

Soprano

Nicola Beller Carbone

Electra

Christiane Kohl

Chrysothemis

Tenor

Andrew Richards

Aegisth

Baritone

Seth Carico

Orest

Martin Achrainer

Christa Ratzenböck

The overseer

Contralto

Beatriz P S Baptista

First maid

Feride Büyükdenktas

Second maid

Eléonore Pancrazi

Third maid

Anna Samokhina

Fourth maid

The trainbearer

Ketevan Chuntishvili

Fifth maid

Ivana Djokovic

The confidante

Bass

Josef Pepper

Orest's tutor

Woohyun Park

A young servant

Gregor Einspieler-Springer

An old servant

Conductor

Nicholas Carter

Stage director

Cesare Lievi

Set designer

David Hohmann

Costume designer

Axel Aust

Chorus master

Günter Wallner

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

German

Elektra -  (Electra)

Klagenfurt

Austria

Elektra Strauss,R

Approved

ELEKTRA 
Oper in einem Aufzug von Richard Strauss / Libretto von Hugo von Hofmannsthal nach seiner gleichnamigen Tragödie (1903) nach der gleichnamigen Tragödie (um 413 v. Chr.) von Sophokles

Premiere 17. September 2020

Musikalische Leitung: Nicholas Carter 
Regie: Cesare Lievi 
Bühne: David Hohmann 
Kostüme: Axel Aust 
Lichtdesign: Helmut Stultschnig 
Choreinstudierung: Günter Wallner 
Dramaturgie: Markus Hänsel 
Elektra: Nicola Beller Carbone 
Klytämnestra: Ksenia Vyaznikova 
Chrysothemis: Christiane Kohl 
Aegisth: Andrew Richards 
Orest: Seth Carico / Martin Achrainer 
Der Pfleger des Orest: Josef Pepper 
Die Vertraute: Ivana Djokovic 
Ein junger Diener: Woohyun Park 
Ein alter Diener: Gregor Einspieler-Springer 
Die Aufseherin: Christa Ratzenböck 
Erste Magd: Beatriz P. S. Baptista 
Zweite Magd: Feride Büyükdenktas 
Dritte Magd: Éléonore Pancrazi 
Vierte Magd / Schleppträgerin: Anna Samokhina 
Fünfte Magd: Ketevan Chuntishvili 

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester 
Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt 

Trailer: Verena Schellander

ELEKTRA - Richard Strauss - Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Stadttheater Klagenfurt

The Stadttheater Klagenfurt starts the 2020/2021 season as planned on September 17, 2020 with Elektra . Cesare Lievi will stage the gripping opera by Richard Strauss. In order to be able to comply with the COVID-19 regulations, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by chief conductor Nicholas Carter, will play on stage. Nicola Beller Carbone stars in the title role.

Under the impression of reading Nietzsche 's The Birth of Tragedy , the studies on hysteria by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud and Freud's Interpretation of Dreams , Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote the one-act tragedy Elektra in 1903. In it, the bright Greekness of a Winckelmann or Goethe gives way to the dark, brutal, almost barbaric side of this civilization. Dark forces drive the characters of the story. Clytemnestra, who once killed her husband Agamemnon, who had returned from the war, in order to be able to live with his cousin Aegisth, is tormented by a bad conscience and fear of her daughter Elektra's unbridled hatred. For them, however, the expectation of bloody revenge on their mother, imagined as intoxicating, has become the only purpose in life.

English

Electra by Strauss, From (2020/2020), Directed by Cesare Lievi,, Conductor Nicholas Carter, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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