Elektra by Richard Strauss - WA Opera

February 8, 11, 14 at 7.30pm

A co-production of West Australian Opera, ThinIce, Perth International Arts Festival and Opera Australia.

Elektra is the most gripping one hundred minutes in opera. Elektra gives us one of Western civilisation’s greatest stories of fanatical love and revenge. A tour de force that drives performers and orchestra to their limit. It was the first collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of the most important composer-librettist partnerships in operatic history.

It remains a unique work as powerful today as in its first performance in Dresden in 1909. Director Matthew Lutton’s new production brings startling visual intensity to the music, allowing the audience to enter into the world of Elektra’s dreams and desires. She has seen her father murdered, the city around her is cursed and she longs for justice. Strauss’ music rises to moments of incredible beauty and falls in moments of horror as Elektra searches for a light in the darkness.

West Australian Opera Chorus

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Sung in German with English surtitles.

Duration: 100 minutes - no interval

For more information visit www.waopera.asn.au

Tickets through BOCS 9484 1133 http://www.bocsticketing.com.au/whats-on/705/elektra/

The Making of Elektra:

Elektra from West Australian Opera on Vimeo.

 

Elektra 2 from West Australian Opera on Vimeo.