Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
Ingela Brimberg (Elektra), Susanna Levonen (Chrysothemis), Ingrid Tobiasson (Klytaemnestra), Thomas Lander (Orestes), Magnus Kyhle (Aegisthus)
Norrlands Operan's Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
This is more than the souvenir of a showy occasion…and its sheer hallucinatory power holds the watcher
Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
Ingela Brimberg (Elektra), Susanna Levonen (Chrysothemis), Ingrid Tobiasson (Klytaemnestra), Thomas Lander (Orestes), Magnus Kyhle (Aegisthus)
Norrlands Operan's Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
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This is more than the souvenir of a showy occasion…and its sheer hallucinatory power holds the watcher
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STAGED BY: La Fura dels Baus
NorrlandsOperan and the dramatic art collective La Fura Dels Baus have create a unique monumental outdoor performance of Richard Strauss’ oneact opera Elektra. Cranes, mechanical giants with singers standing inside their chests, skips filled with Blood – Elektra is NorrlandsOperan’s biggest and most complex production ever, including many ‘special-effects’: “Suddenly, the front of the large containers opened up. Bloody water came gushing out in copious amounts. The water level on the graveyard rose and turned red.” (Kulturkorren)
RECORDING DATE: Umea, Sweden, 2014
SOUND FORMAT Blu-ray: PCM 2.0, dts-HD MA 5.1
PICTURE 16:9, HD
SUBTITLES: German (original language), English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
BOOKLET: English, German, French
TOTAL RUNNING TIME. 110 MINS
Contents and tracklist
- Ingela Brimberg (Elektra), Susanna Levonen (Chrysothemis), Ingrid Tobiasson (Klytaemnestra), Thomas Lander (Orestes), Magnus Kyhle (Aegisthus), Lennart Forsén (Tutor/An old servant), Margaretha Dahlhamn, Agneta Lundgren, Katarina Leoson, Sara Olsson, Karin Andersson (Maids), Niklas Björlig Rygert (Young Servant), Annelie Lindfors (Overseer)
- Norrlands Operan's Symphony Orchestra
- Rumon Gamba
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February 2016
This is more than the souvenir of a showy occasion…and its sheer hallucinatory power holds the watcher
