Elektra - The Royal Opera House - Delta Park, Jo'burg
Sun 19
July 2020
12:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
Ended
Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy
receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy.
This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge
and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to lively debate
and both shocked and excited audiences since its 1909 premiere.
Antonio Pappano conducts music that combines violence with moments of
exquisite tenderness in his first Strauss interpretation for The Royal
Opera since 2002. The outstanding cast includes Nina Stemme
(Brunnhilde in last Season’s Der Ring des Nibelungen) in the title
role, and Karita Mattila in her role debut as the haunted queen
Klytämnestra.
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Delta Environmental Centre
77 Craighall Road, Randburg, 2195, Gauteng, South Africa