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Strauss: Elektra / Alan Gilbert

Name: Strauss: Elektra / Alan Gilbert
Start: 2026-02-15T18:00:00
Location: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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"Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur"? No way! With their breathtaking operatic shocker "Elektra," Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal completely turned the 18th-century idealized image of antiquity on its head in 1909. Horror instead of humanism, revenge instead of a feat of glory, bloodbath instead of a flowering of culture: this one-act opera leaves no one unmoved to this day. And in terms of the musical language, Strauss ...

Program

Richard Strauss - Elektra

Composer

Participants

Alan Gilbert

Conductor

Benjamin Bruns

Aegisth

Christina Nilsson

Chrysothemis

Karita Mattila

Clytemnestra

Ingela Brimberg

Elektra

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2 dates (13 Feb - 15 Feb)

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Fri

6:00 pm

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany

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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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