Elektra, Opera Bastille, Paris: 10 May-1 June 2022

The result of the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, Elektra marks an important stage in the evolution of 20th-century music. Using a gigantic orchestra, the composer wrote his most audacious and dramatic score, requiring the singers to transcend their limits in order to render the harshness and violence of a barbaric world pierced by a few flashes of light. Semyon Bychkov, then Casey Scaglione, conduct a cast of outstanding Straussians, led by Christine Goerke and Waltraud Meier, in Robert Carsen's staging that sets the tragedy in a wild, expressionist universe.

Elektra

Opera in one act