Portraying the dysfunctional familyĬhristine Goerke dominated Elektra’s fearsome music, sporting the black draped poncho and basketball shoes of a graduate student-not the typical dirty rags of a princess who lives like an animal. Warner’s conceit was to lock a modern museum visitor obsessed with glass-cased relics of the House of Atreus into the vault, transmuting her into the archaic Greek princess Elektra.
Staged here by Anna Kühnhold, this co-production with the Prague National Theatre and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is set in a claustrophobic museum vault designed by Boris Kudlicka with Kaspar Glarner’s eclectic modern Mycenaean Greek costumes.
Keith Warner’s frenetic, conceptually driven production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra (1909) reinforced a musically brilliant performance of this brutal, uncompromising opera centered on a mythic daughter’s longing for revenge of the murder of her father, Agamemnon, by her mother Klytemnestra.
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