Information on production

Premiere

Sep 2, 2016

Production type

• Opera

Performance duration

1 h 45 min

Title

Elektra

Co-production

In collaboration with

Teatro alla Scala, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Metropolitan Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

Production team

• Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Director: Patrice Chéreau
• Set designer: Richard Peduzzi
• Costume designer: Caroline de Vivaise
• Lighting design: Dominique Bruguière

Dramatis personae

• Klytaimnestra
• Elektra
• Chrysothemis
• Aegisth
• Orest
• Orest's tutor
• Klytaemnestra's confidante
• A young servant
• An old servant
• 1. maid
• 2. maid
• 3. maid
• 4. maid
• 5. maid
• Other maids
• Extras