opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoRichard Strauss, Elektra (1909)
libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, from his play
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1980
- Conductor: James Levine
- Director: Herbert Graf
- Set Designer: Rudolf Heinrich
- Elektra: Birgit Nilsson
- Chrysothemis: Leonie Rysanek