Listen to Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” Live from the MET, Thursday night at 8pm (Sirius/XM/Live Met Radio on Real Player)

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

One of the greatest, the late Hildegard Behrens

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