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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0807280004991
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Arthaus Musik
Languages: GermanOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageEnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownGermanSubtitledEnglishSubtitledItalianSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Arthaus Musik
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Arthaus Musik
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Running Time: 109 minutes
Studio: Arthaus Musik
Theatrical Release Date: 1989
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
There is a special category of German opera--we might call it the repellent masterpiece--in which some works of Richard Strauss are prominent, and Elektra is perhaps the pinnacle, certainly a unique experience. This production fulfills all the opera's requirements for mastery and repulsion.
Opera frequently deals with dysfunctional families, but the clan of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Elektra, and Orestes stands out even when compared with those of Oedipus or Medea. Deep, burning hatred, a thirst for revenge, a violent distaste for one's nearest and dearest are the driving forces in this work, which is essentially about the imperative of killing Mommy because she has murdered Daddy, who long ago killed Little Sister. Creating a musical masterpiece out of such material was a daunting challenge, and Richard Strauss fulfilled it spectacularly with music that celebrates the powers of darkness. This Vienna State Opera production captures the music's shadowy, muscular essence. --Joe McLellan
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
While I agree with the previous reviewer that this is a truly stupendous performance of Elektra, I am obliged to note that my copy of this DVD had a very serious technical problem: At about the half-way mark of the opera, the audio track started to become slightly out-of-sync with the picture, and, as it progressed, totally out-of-sync. The second half of the film was unwatchable, as by then the singers' mouths were opening a full second after the note sounded on the audio track. I cannot image ... Read More
Rating:  -
Previously available on an Image Entertainment DVD before falling out of the catalog for some time, the 1989 Kupfer/Abbado Vienna production makes a welcome reappearance under the Arthaus Musik imprint. The dominant image in Harry Kupfer's stage picture is an enormous statue of Agamemnon with one foot bearing down on a globe. The statue has been decapitated by Aegisth and his followers, and the head lies a short distance away, nearer the rear of the stage. Ropes are attached to the statue's body in ... Read More
Rating: -
This production is very satisfying on some levels yet equally disappointing in others. I'll start with the latter. To me, there was absolutely no sense of time or place in the drama. Ancient Greece may just as well have been Weimar Republic Berlin. The stage is dominated by the lower half of a mammoth statue (I'm assuming Agamemnon due to Elektra forever clinging, sitting, prostrating on its base) and a little further upstage the now detached, crumbling head of same; however, the statue is in slacks ... Read More
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Great, amazing production.
Kupfer rules with this intense and inspired stage directing.
This is the first Elektra of Eva Marton and it is the best interprentation I have ever seen so far.
Her Elektra is passionate, human, full of pain, insanity, fear and fury. Multimensional portrayal and great conducting from Abbado, as well.
A MUST for every opera fan!!! A MUST SEE!!!
Rating: -
This production of Elektra is exceptionally well sung by all involved--no weak links.
The Vienna State Opera under Claudio Abbado provides a richer orchestral sound than I have heard in other productions.
I should warn you about the staging, costumes, and subtitles:
The staging and scenery are uworldly--a huge bust (of Agamemnon?), a giant, planet-like sphere, and many ropes hanging from the ceiling. The ropes provide something for the singers to hang onto and struggle ... Read More
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