Casting

• The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
• Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor)
• Patrice Chéreau (Stage Direction)
• Nina Stemme (Soprano) : Elektra
• Adrianne Pieczonka (Soprano) : Chrysothemis
• Waltraud Meier (Mezzo-soprano) : Klytämnestra
• Eric Owens (Bass) : Orest
• Burkhard Ulrich (Tenor) : Aegisth
• Susan Neves (Soprano) : Overseer | Confidant

Program

Elektra
'Tragödie' in one act by Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocle's 'Electra'
First performance in Dresden, Hofoper, 25 January 1909

Recording: April 30 2016 - Metropolitan Opera | New York
Director: Gary Halvorson
Duration: 01:52