Elektra-funk
Get your Heckelphon on tonight, when the Met broadcasts this evening’s Elektra live, starting at 8pm on Sirius Radio.
Enjoy and discuss!
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Gearing up for my favorite opera of all time!
LOOOVED the Heckelphone reference, Cieca!
(There’s still “Elektra Glide in Blue” waiting to be used as a headline someday.)
I found here an upload of some generous spirit of the performance that kept me awake until 5 am
http://www.opera-collection.net/uploadsmet20092010.htm
Sie schlagen mich! (Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack!)
Besetzung:
ELEKTRA
R. Strauss-Von Hofmannsthal
Elektra………………..Susan Bullock
Chrysothemis……………Deborah Voigt
Klytämnestra……………Felicity Palmer
Orest………………….Evgeny Nikitin
Aegisth………………..Wolfgang Schmidt
Overseer……………….Susan Neves
Serving Woman…………..Kathryn Day
Serving Woman…………..Heidi Melton
Serving Woman…………..Maria Zifchak
Serving Woman…………..Wendy Bryn Harmer
Serving Woman…………..Jennifer Check
Confidant………………Rosemary Nencheck
Trainbearer…………….Alexandra Newland
Young Servant…………..John Easterlin
Old Servant…………….Kevin Burdette
Guardian……………….Oren Gradus
Conductor………………Fabio Luisi
Production……………..Otto Schenk
Designer……………….Jürgen Rose
Lighting Designer……….Gil Wechsler
Stage Director…………David Kneuss
Broadcast live on Sirius and XM Metropolitan Opera Radio
Ich bin ein Weib, und will ein Weiberschicksal!
dude, I know!
This is a good way to hear this cast. We hear Susan B so much better over the sirius. She was a little swallowed in the house. But lovely singing.
Loving Felicity Palmer…
Goddess. Love it.
Fabio Luisi one of the three truly great Strauss conductors today, the other two being Marek Janowski and Semyon Bychkov. There’s so much atmosphere and warmth and personality in the playing and pacing. It all makes symphonic sense.
agree. although there might be more than three, I have to think about it.
where is Janowski these days? GREAT conductor. Bychkov? Met, hire them!
Agreed about Janowski. But surely Sawallisch belongs on the list?
Sawallisch is retired in a secure, undisclosed location (Bavaria).
I couldn’t agree more, CF – I wish one of these three were conducting the RO’s current Rosenkavalier rather than the hopeless Kirill Petrenko.
Nun denn allein!
Great sound tonight. Wish I were there in-person.