Elektra: Bayerische Staatsoper

About the Event

Experience Strauss' intense version of this Greek tragedy at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Elektra's father: murdered. Her mother and her paramour Ägisth were his murderers. The disheveled Elektra is determined to avenge the parricide. She has the axe for the deed but not the strength. Then her brother Orest appears…

Armor‐plated emotions whipped up by a gigantic orchestra. An aristocratic cast of singers. An enthusiastically‐acclaimed staging by Herbert Wernicke. A shattering drama of the soul.

In German with German surtitles.

Musikalische Leitung: Asher Fisch
Inszenierung, Bühne, Kostüme, Licht: Herbert Wernicke
Chöre: Sören Eckhoff

Klytämnestra: Waltraud Meier
Elektra: Iréne Theorin (May), Evelyn Herlitzius (July)
Chrysothemis: Ricarda Merbeth (May), Adrianne Pieczonka (July)
Aegisth: Ulrich Reß
Orest: Günther Groissböck
An old slave: Peter Lobert
An overseer: Katja Pieweck
First maid: Okka von der Damerau
Second maid: Angela Brower
Third maid: Heike Grötzinger
Fourth maid: Golda Schultz
Fifth maid: Hanna‐Elisabeth Müller

Bayerisches Staatsorchester