Tomorrow night the Met opens its 2009 run of Richard Strauss’ monumental and psychological opera, “Elektra”, featuring soprano Susan Bullock as the tragic heroine and Deborah Voigt as Chrysothemis. Listen live at 8pm on Sirius/XM Radio or live from the Met Website on Real Player.
Susan Bullock, as Elektra
CAST
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Elektra: Susan Bullock
Chrysothemis: Deborah Voigt
Klytemnestra: Felicity Palmer
Aegisthus: Wolfgang Schmidt
Orestes: Evgeny Nikitin
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Production: Otto Schenk
Set & Costume Designer: Jürgen Rose
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler
I love your picture of the great Hildegard. Please see a wonderful tribute to her in this page:
http://fanfaire.com/behrens/behrens-tributes-index.html
Thanks for the link. She was quite wonderful in the German repertoire.
TLV