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
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
Cat: 99175
Hildegard Behrens
Luana DeVol
Leonie Rysanek
Wolfgang Schöne
Daniel Galvez-Vallejo
Friedemann Layer
Opéra national de Montpellier orchestra & chorus
CD: Actes Sud
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 Iréne Theorin
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Waltraud Meier
René Pape
Robert Gambill
Daniele Gatti
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
(recorded at Salzburg Festival)
DVD: ArtHaus Musik
Cat: 101559[7][8]
2014 Ingela Brimberg
Susanna Levonen
Ingrid Tobiasson
Thomas Lander
Magnus Kyhle
Rumon Gamba
NorrlandsOperan orchestra & chorus
(filmed on 19 & 21 August)
DVD: Unitel Classica
Cat: 731808[9]

References

Notes
  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. "On-line catalogue entry - Richard Strauss - Elektra - DVD". ArtHaus Musik. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  8. Levine, Robert. "Review - Richard Strauss Elektra DVD". www.classicstoday.com. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  9. Hall, George. Review of Elektra, Strauss. Opera, Vol 67 No 4, April 2016, p514-5.
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