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Elektra / Richard Strauss.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Behrens, Hildegard, performer, performer.
Voigt, Deborah, performer, performer.
Fassbaender, Brigitte, performer, performer.
King, James, 1925-2005, performer, performer.
McIntyre, Donald, 1934-2025, performer, performer.
Levine, James, 1943-2021, conductor, conductor.
Schenk, Otto, director, director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 46 min., 25 sec.)) : sound, colo
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1994]
Language Note:
Sung in German; English subtitles.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
video file streaming video file
Summary:
Met Music Director James Levine brings aching lyricism and dramatic intensity to one of opera's most gripping scores. The great Hildegard Behrens takes on the towering title role of a murdered king's daughter obsessed with avenging her father's death. Brigitte Fassbaender is magnetic as Klytämnestra, Elektra's mother, and Deborah Voigt delivers a moving portrayal of Chrysothemis. Donald McIntyre as Orest and James King as Aegisth complete the all-star cast. This performance is taken from the DVD box set celebrating 40 Years of James Levine at the Met.
Contents:
Opening credits
Wo bleibt Elektra?
Allein! Weh, ganz allein
Vater! Agamemnon
Elektra!
Ah , das Gesicht!
Ich kann nicht sitzen und ins Dunkel starren
Es geht ein Lärm los
Was willst du? Seht doch, dort!
Ich will nichts hören
Ich habe keine guten Nächte
Wenn das rechte Blutopfer
Was bluten mu€?
Orest ist tot!
Nun mu€ es hier von uns geschehn
Wie stark du bist!
Nun denn, allein!
Was willst du, fremder Mensch?
Elektra! Elektra!
Orest!
Du wirst es tun? Allein?
Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben können!
He! Lichter! Lichter!
Elektra! Schwester!
Schweig' und tanze!
Bows and closing credits.
Participant:
Hildegard Behrens ; Deborah Voigt ; Brigitte Fassbaender ; James King ; Donald McIntyre ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
Credits:
Director, Otto Schenk.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1994 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396373
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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