Elektra
by Richard Strauss

Christine Goerke sings her first Elektra, an intense and still-startling work that unites the commanding impact of Greek tragedy with the unsettling insights of early-20th-century Freudian psychology. Based on Sophocles’s Electra, the story takes place in Mycenae, Greece, some years after the end of the Trojan War; the Met’s production is set in an unspecified contemporary space.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Strauss’s shattering score, a tour de force for the singers and the orchestra alike. (Nézet-Séguin will become the Met Opera's next Music Director beginning September 2018, two seasons earlier than previously announced.)

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Cast:

Elektra: Christine Goerke

Chrysothemis: Elza van den Heever

Klytämnestra: Michaela Schuster

Aegisth: Jay Hunter Morris

Orest: Mikhail Petrenko

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Start time: 10:00 AM on Capital Public Radio.
Approximate running time 1 hrs 44 min