Elektra, Op. 58, a masterpiece by Richard Strauss

Elektra, Op. 58 is a one-act opera by the German composer Richard Strauss, with a libretto by the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (also the librettist of the operas Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos). The work is a modern reimagining of Sophocles' eponymous drama, which narrates the events following the return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War. His wife, Clytemnestra, murders him so that she can live with her lover and rule the city of Mycenae. In the shadows, the children of the royal couple, Elektra and her brother Orestes, succumb to their thirst for revenge, seeking to restore their father's reputation. To musically portray the dark atmospheres of Elektra, Strauss indulges in powerful and dissonant orchestration: a true masterpiece that, along with another of his early operas, Salome, foreshadows the Expressionist period!

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Elektra is an opera by Strauss that tells the story of Agamemnon's daughter seeking vengeance: her father was the legendary commander of the Greek troops during the Trojan War. It immediately recalls a statement by the Italian intellectual Furio Jesi: "Mythological materials are merely texts to which a qualification is mistakenly attributed due to the wrong choice of method, as one remains hypnotized by one of their many possible interpretations." It is not surprising, then, that the character of Elektra, in the hands of the father of psychoanalysis, Freud, became a symbol of a psychological complex. In fact, Elektra represents an atavistic passion: a daughter's love for her father, which, in its pathological manifestations, transforms into hatred for her own mother. Thus, Strauss's Elektra continues to resonate, revealing the depths of our souls through its dark atmospheres and neurasthenic arias. Enjoy the most exquisite operas by Strauss on medici.tv: listen to Elektra whenever and wherever you desire!