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Strauss’s Elektra

Name: Strauss’s Elektra
Start: 2026-08-23T18:30:00
Location: Usher Hall

Edinburgh International Festival

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Elektra is determined to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by her mother Klytämnestra – but will Klytämnestra destroy her first?

Program

Richard Strauss - Elektra

Participants

Martin Snell

An old servant

Karina Canellakis

Conductor

Nina Stemme

Klytämnestra

Günther Groissböck

Orest

Iréne Theorin

Elektra

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1 dates (23 Aug - 23 Aug)

Aug

Sun

6:30 pm

Usher Hall

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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