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Roland Schwab

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Piero Vinciguerra

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Gabriele Rupprecht

Luci

Andreas Grüter

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+2)

Rustam Samedov

Drammaturgo

Stephan Steinmetz

Soprano (+1)

Allison Oakes

Elettra

Tenore (+5)

Martin Koch

Egisto

Soprano (+2)

Tinka Pypker

L'ancella dello strascico

Soprano (+5)

Claudia Rohrbach

La sorvegliante

Mezzosoprano (+4)

Adriana Bastidas-Gamboa

1. ancella

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Tina Drole

3. ancella

Soprano (+3)

Maria Koroleva

4. ancella

Soprano

Emily Hindrichs

5. ancella

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Gürzenich - Orchester Köln

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Chor der Oper Köln

Staatenhaus Köln

Direttore d'orchestra

Direttore d'orchestra (+1)

Felix Bender

John Heuzenroeder

Un giovane servo

Basso (+4)

Christoph Seidl

Un vecchio servo

Mezzosoprano (+3)

Lioba Braun

Clitemnestra

Lucas Singer

Il precettore di Oreste

Maike Raschke

La confidente

Mezzosoprano (+5)

Regina Richter

2. ancella

Magdalena Hinterdobler

Crisotemide

Astrid Kessler

Baritono (+3)

Insik Choi

Oreste

Dalia Schaechter

Basso-baritono (+3)

William Socolof

Arne Willimczik

Alina König Rannenberg

Mezzosoprano (+6)

Susanne Blattert

Armando Elizondo

Serafina Starke

Basso (+3)

Karl-Heinz Lehner

Disaster looms over the ruling house of Mycenae. Since Agamemnon was killed by his wife Klytaemnestra, ever new sacrifices have been made. But peace does not return, especially not for the children. Orest has gone missing, Chrysothemis wants a family of her own, but Elektra pursues only one thought: revenge for her father. “The times are strange”, wrote the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal around 1900, “and they have strange children: us!” He observes “people who were fractured”, who had lost their unity. With irrationality, delusion and “mysteriously aroused nature”, the writer poetically describes what Sigmund Freud was soon to describe psychoanalytically as a sign of the times.

The composer Richard Strauss experienced Hofmannsthal’s “Elektra” as a modern antique drama on the stage in Berlin in 1905 and was fascinated by the expressiveness of the language and the characters. He was particularly interested by the moment where language reaches the end of its possibilities, when Elektra falls into orgiastic dances of triumph. “Do I not hear the music? It comes out of me!” is the decisive sentence for Richard Strauss, who enriches the drama with music that had previously been thought impossible and remains unrivalled to this day. “Elektra” (1909) has the largest orchestra of all of Strauss’ operas, the most incredible tonal language, the starkest contrasts and the boldest idea of opera. Strauss gives the three protagonists Elektra, Chrysothemis and Klytaemnestra a tremendous amount of space to unfold their elemental drive energy - against others and against themselves, under the all-dominant motif of Agamemnon.

This is the first time that the renowned director Roland Schwab, who staged “Tristan und Isolde” at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival, among other things, is working in Cologne.

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