Mommie Dearest

Legendary mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig is featured as one of the meanest mothers in all of opera, nasty Queen Klytemnästra, in a scene from Strauss’s Elektra as performed in Vienna, 1980. Birgit Nilsson is her disobedient daughter. The complete Klytemnästra scene is available as a playlist on YouTube.

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