RICHARD STRAUSS

ELEKTRA
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Ingela Brimberg
Susanna Levonen
Ingrid Tobiasson
Thomas Lander
Magnus Kyhle
NorrlandsOperan
conducted by Rumon Gamba
staged by Carlus Padrissa
La Fura dels Baus
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ELEKTRA
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ELEKTRA
RICHARD STRAUSS
Elektra
Chrysothemis
Klytaemnestra
Orestes
Aegisthus
Ingela Brimberg
Susanna Levonen
Ingrid Tobiasson
Thomas Lander
Magnus Kyhle
et al.
Video Director Ola Gerhardsson
Length: approx. 110'
Shot in HDTV 1080/50i
Cat. no. A06050002
The city of Umeå not only host the worlds most northern opera house,
but is also the European Culture Capital of 2014, for which occasion the
NorrlandsOperan and the dramatic art collective La Fura Dels Baus have
create a unique monumental outdoor performance of Richard Strauss’ oneact opera Elektra.
Cranes, mechanical giants with singers standing inside their chests, skips
filled with Blood – Elektra is NorrlandsOperan’s biggest and most complex
production ever, including many ‘special-effects’: “Suddenly, the front of
the large containers opened up. Bloody water came gushing out in copious
amounts. The water level on the graveyard rose and turned red. It was macabre,
shocking and powerful in its great simplicity.” (Kulturkorren).
The opera itself is based on the ancient myth about a woman who does
everything in her power to revenge the murder of her father Agamemnon,
while waiting in vain for the return of her presumed dead brother Orest.
The unique outdoor stage, where the opera takes place, is two hundred metres
long and erected on the old military command centre near the heart of Umeå
city. It represents the palace in which Elektra’s dysfunctional family lives with
their servants.
The NorrlandsOperan’s Symphony Orchestra is lead by conductor and
grammy award nominee Rumon Gamba, gives the music its powerful and
expressive note. Strauss’ courage inspired Carlus Padrissa of La Fura Dels
Baus in his staging of Elektra’s wrath and vindictiveness and for giving the
atmosphere for that, West Bothnian twilight is the perfect background for the
burning forest and the river of blood. Elektra is sung by Ingela Brimberg who’s
“powerful voice filled soul, earth and sky” (Kulturkorren).
“There may of course be other Elektra interpretations of great interest, from
La Scala or the Semperoper Dresden, but the unique performance in Umeå is
simply unmatched”, summarizes the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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Orchestra NorrlandsOperan’s
Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Rumon Gamba
Staged by Carlus Padrissa,
La Fura dels Baus