Elektra Pre-Performance Lecture Slideshow

Elektra Pre-Performance Lecture Slideshow

Richard Strauss
January, 1910
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1909
Elektra
premiere production
Dresden, 1909
Alfred Roller, designer
Sigmund Freud, 1909
Arthur Schnitzler, circa 1900
Pellèas et Mèlisande, 1902
Oscar Wilde
• By Toulouse-Lautrec 1895
• Salome, 1891
Vienna Secession Building, 1897
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Vienna Secession Building
details
Gorgons
Owls (Athena) & Laurels (Apollo)
Archaeology in 1900
Schliemann & the “Mask of
Agamemnon”
Evans and Linear B Script
Electra in Drama
• Sophocles (~405 B.C.), Hofmannsthal’s direct
source
• Euripides (~415 B.C.)
• Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers (Part 2 of The
Oresteia, 458 B.C.)
The Family of Agamemnon
[Part I]
Zeus
Tantalus
Pelops
Atreus
Agamemnon/[Menelaus]
Iphigenia/Electra/Chrysothemis/Orestes
Klytemnestra’s family [Part I]
Zeus + Taygete (one of the Pleiades)
Lacedaemon (=“Sparta”)
Amyclus
Argalus (=“Argos”)
Cynortas
Oebalus/Gorgophone (daughter of Perseus [son of
Zeus & Danaë, & founder of Mycenae] &
Andromeda)
Tyndareus & Leda
Klytemnestra’s Nuclear Family
Tyndareus + Leda [+ Zeus]
Klytemnestra/Castor [Helen/Polydeuces {Pollux}]
Agamemnon + Klytemnestra [+ Aegisthus, son of
Atreus’ brother Thyestes and Thyestes’ own daughter
Pelopia]
Menelaus + Helen [+ Paris]
The Song of the Nibelung
Orestes & Electra kill Aegisthus,
Krater, 465 BC
Elektra, Munich 1910
Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016
Patrice Chèreau
1944 - 2013
Der Ring des Nibelung,
Bayreuth, 1976
Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016
Nina Stemme
Waltraud Meier