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Elektra (1989)

Elektra

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1h 49m

Drama, Musicals

January 1st, 1989

7.8/10

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Synopsis

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

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Cast

Éva Marton
Elektra
Cheryl Studer
Chrysothemis
Brigitte Fassbaender
Klytemnästra
James King
Aegisth
Franz Grundheber
Orest
Goran Simic
Der Pfleger des Orest
Waltraud Winsauer
Die Vertraute
Noriko Sasaki
Die Schleppträgerin
Wilfried Gahmlich
Ein junger Diener
Claudio Otelli
Ein alter Diener
Full cast & crew

Directors

Brian Large
Full cast & crew

Producers

Franz Kabelka
executive producer
Full cast & crew

Writers

Hugo von Hofmannsthal
libretto
Sophocles
after
Full cast & crew

Keywords

based on play
torment
myth
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Country of Origin

Austria
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Languages

German

Release Dates

January 1st, 1989 (Austria)
January 1st, 1989 (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) theatrical

Alternative Titles

Elektra (original title)
Elektra (Austria)
Ηλέκτρα (Greece)

Locations

Vienna, Austria

Running Times

109 min

Sound Mixes

Stereo

Aspect Ratios

1.33 : 1

Production Companies

Vienna State Opera
RM Arts
Wiener Staatsoper (in association with)
All Production Companies

Distribution Companies

Arthaus Musik (Non-US)
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) (Austria)
Kultur Video (United States of America)
All Distribution Companies

Other Companies

Chor der Wiener Staatsoper (chorus)
Wiener Staatsoper (from)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper (orchestra)

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