Mounting dread
On this day in 1992 the Metropolitan Opera presented a [disastrous] new production of Elektra.
Deborah Voigt
59 pieces since 2007 — in 13 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
59
pieces
13
roles
5
companies
20
years
By role
4 pieces as Chrysothemis — stats above show all coverage for Deborah Voigt.
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Not only with words, but with lively gestures
“I will never sing the role again. It was frightful. We were a set of madwomen…There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived and reached the furthest boundaries in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Richard Strauss goes beyond him. His singing voices are lost. We have come to a full stop.”
Hier bleibt Elektra
The Met has finally released the contents of the James Levine 40th Anniversary box sets separately for those of us who didn’t have $500 lying around.
Noch einmal!
Richard Strauss’s brilliantly disturbing Elektra was first performed at the Dresden State Opera in 1909, and arrived in America in 1910 at the Manhattan Opera House. A second American premiere, this time in the original German, was in Philadelphia in 1931 with – and this will kill you – Nelson Eddy as Orestes. Along with […]