Elektra discography

This is a list of recordings of Elektra, a one-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The work was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on 25 January 1909.

Recordings

Year	Cast (Elektra, Chrysothemis, Klytemnestra, Orestes, Aegisthus)	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label^[1]
1947	Erna Schlüter Paul Schöffler Ljuba Welitsch Walter Widdop	Thomas Beecham Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & chorus (final scenes only, recorded on 13–15 October)	CD: Naxos Records Cat: 8.111372
1949	Astrid Varnay Irene Jessner Elena Nicolaidi Herbert Janssen Frederick Jagel	Dimitri Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic orchestra & chorus (recorded on 25 December)	CD: Guild Immortal Cat: GHCD 2213/4
1953	Astrid Varnay Leonie Rysanek Res Fischer Hans Hotter Helmut Melchert	Richard Kraus WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne & chorus (recorded in studio on 22–28 August)	CD: Capriccio Cat: C5008
1957	Inge Borkh Lisa Della Casa Jean Madeira Kurt Böhme Max Lorenz	Dimitri Mitropoulos Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus	CD: Orfeo Cat: C456972I
1957	Sigrid Ekkehard Hedwig Müller-Bütow Margarete Klose Gerhard Niese Günter Treptow	Lovro von Matačić Staatskapelle Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin (Mono, Live, October 3, 1957)	CD: Weitblick Cat: SSS0049-2
1958	Gerda Lammers Hedwig Müller-Bütow Georgine von Milinkovic Edgar Evans Otakar Kraus	Rudolf Kempe Royal Opera House orchestra & chorus	CD: Royal Opera House Heritage Cat: ROHS 005
1960	Inge Borkh Marianne Schech Jean Madeira Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Fritz Uhl	Karl Böhm Staatskapelle Dresden Dresden State Opera House chorus	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 445329
1964	Astrid Varnay Hildegard Hillebrecht Martha Mödl Eberhard Wächter James King	Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus	CD: Orfeo Cat: C298922I
1965	Birgit Nilsson Leonie Rysanek Regina Resnik Eberhard Wächter Wolfgang Windgassen	Karl Böhm Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus	CD: Orfeo Cat: C886142I
1967	Birgit Nilsson Marie Collier Regina Resnik Tom Krause Gerhard Stolze	Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus	CD: Decca Records Cat: 830302
1980	Birgit Nilsson Leonie Rysanek Mignon Dunn Donald McIntyre Robert Nagy	James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus^[2]	DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 073 4111
1981	Leonie Rysanek Catarina Ligendza Astrid Varnay Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Hans Beirer	Karl Böhm Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus^[3]	DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 073 4095
1988	Hildegard Behrens Nadine Secunde Christa Ludwig Jorma Hynninen Ragnar Ulfung	Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood Music Festival chorus	CD: Decca Cat: 470583
1989	Éva Marton Cheryl Studer Brigitte Fassbaender Franz Grundheber James King	Claudio Abbado Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus	DVD: ArtHaus Musik Cat: 100048^[4]
1990	Gwyneth Jones Anne Evans Leonie Rysanek Wolfgang Schöne Ronald Hamilton	Jeffrey Tate Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Grand Théâtre de Genève chorus (recorded on 10 March)	CD: Claves Cat: 50-2514/15
1990	Éva Marton Cheryl Studer Marjana Lipovšek Bernd Weikl Hermann Winkler	Wolfgang Sawallisch Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & chorus	CD: EMI Classics Cat: 9190
1994	Hildegard Behrens Deborah Voigt Brigitte Fassbaender Donald McIntyre James King	James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus (telecast of 22 January)^[5]	DVD: The Met Opera Cat: 811357013274^[6]
1995	Deborah Polaski Alessandra Marc Waltraud Meier Falk Struckmann Johan Botha	Daniel Barenboim Berlin State Opera orchestra & chorus	CD: Teldec^[7] Cat: 99175
1995	Hildegard Behrens Luana DeVol Leonie Rysanek Wolfgang Schöne Daniel Galvez-Vallejo	Friedemann Layer Opéra national de Montpellier orchestra & chorus	CD: Actes Sud^[8] Cat: AT 34109
1997	Alessandra Marc Deborah Voigt Hanna Schwarz Samuel Ramey Siegfried Jerusalem	Giuseppe Sinopoli Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus	CD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 453429
2004	Deborah Polaski Anne Schwanewilms Felicity Palmer Franz Grundheber Graham Clark	Semyon Bychkov WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne & chorus	CD: Profil Medien Cat: PH 05022
2006	Eva Johansson Melanie Diener Marjana Lipovšek Alfred Muff Rudolf Schasching	Christoph von Dohnányi Zürich Opera House orchestra & chorus	DVD: TDK Cat: DVWW-OPELEK
2010	Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet Angela Denoke Felicity Palmer Matthias Goerne Ian Storey	Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus	CD: LSO Live^[9]
2010	Iréne Theorin Eva-Maria Westbroek Waltraud Meier René Pape Robert Gambill	Daniele Gatti Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus (Stage director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff; recorded at Salzburg Festival)	Blu-ray/DVD: ArtHaus Musik^[10]^[11]
2014	Ingela Brimberg Susanna Levonen Ingrid Tobiasson Thomas Lander Magnus Kyhle	Rumon Gamba NorrlandsOperan orchestra & chorus (recorded on 19 & 21 August)	DVD: Unitel Classica Cat: 731808^[12]
2016	Nina Stemme Adrianne Pieczonka Waltraud Meier Eric Owens Burkhard Ulrich	Esa-Pekka Salonen Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus (Production: Patrice Chéreau; recorded live on 30 April)	HD video: Met Opera on Demand^[13]

References

Notes

^ Recordings of Elektra on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
^ Elektra (1981) at IMDb
^ Elektra (1981) at IMDb
^ "Elektra – Richard Strauss". Germany: ArtHaus Musik. 2006. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
^ Telecast of 22 January 1994 at the MetOpera Database
^ Recording details are from the 2010 Met DVD of the 22 January 1994 telecast, from the DVD collection "James Levine Celebrating 40 Years at the Met"
^ Elektra, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, recorded live in February 1995, OCLC 35682115.
^ Elektra, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, recorded live 3 August 1995, OCLC 49863795.
^ London Symphony, 2010, OCLC 798251405.
^ Salzburg, 2010: Blu-ray OCLC 900083419; DVD OCLC 721878782.
^ Levine, Robert. "Review - Richard Strauss Elektra DVD". www.classicstoday.com. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^ Hall, George. Review of Elektra, Strauss. Opera, Vol 67 No 4, April 2016, p514-5.
^ "Elektra" (30 April 2016), Met Opera on Demand; "CID:356455", Met Opera Archive.

Sources

Discography on Classical CD Review, accessed 3 March 2009

[1] Recordings of Elektra on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

[2] Elektra (1981) at IMDb

[3] Elektra (1981) at IMDb

[4] "Elektra – Richard Strauss". Germany: ArtHaus Musik. 2006. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2010.

[5] Telecast of 22 January 1994 at the MetOpera Database

[6] Recording details are from the 2010 Met DVD of the 22 January 1994 telecast, from the DVD collection "James Levine Celebrating 40 Years at the Met"

[7] Elektra, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, recorded live in February 1995, OCLC 35682115.

[8] Elektra, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, recorded live 3 August 1995, OCLC 49863795.

[9] London Symphony, 2010, OCLC 798251405.

[10] Salzburg, 2010: Blu-ray OCLC 900083419; DVD OCLC 721878782.

[11] Levine, Robert. "Review - Richard Strauss Elektra DVD". www.classicstoday.com. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

[12] Hall, George. Review of Elektra, Strauss. Opera, Vol 67 No 4, April 2016, p514-5.

[13] "Elektra" (30 April 2016), Met Opera on Demand; "CID:356455", Met Opera Archive.

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Film adaptations	Der Rosenkavalier (1926 film)
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Family	Agamemnon (father) Clytemnestra (mother) Aegisthus (stepfather) Orestes (brother) Iphigenia (sister) Chrysothemis (sister)
Films	Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Electra (1962) Sandra (1965) The Forgotten Pistolero (1969) Electra, My Love (1974) The Travelling Players (1975) Ellie (1984) Electra (2010)
Operas	Idoménée (1712, Campra) Idomeneo (1780, Mozart) Oresteia (1895, Taneyev) Elektra (1909, Strauss/von Hofmannsthal) discography Leben des Orest (1930, Krenek) Mourning Becomes Electra (1967, Levy/Butler)
Literature	Oresteia (458 BC, Aeschylus) Electra (c. 413 BC, Euripides) Orestes (c. 408 BC, Euripides) Electra (c. 405 BC, Sophocles) Electra (1937, Giraudoux) The Flies (1943, Sartre) Elektra (1971, Wijesinha) Mourning Becomes Electra (1931, O'Neill) Elektra (1981, Marvel)
Art	Orestes and Electra