Elektra's Monologue, Salzburg 1957 (Inge Borkh)

"Just as stars scatter into they night sky,
just as overturned jars violently pour out its content --
so will blood flow from their throats!
When the deed has been done,
then we will dance around their dead bodies!"
~Elektra

The opera opens with the three-note motif of Agamemnon, Elektra's slain father. This motif or musical theme appears constantly throughout the opera, suggesting the ominous presence of Agamemnon all throughout. It is the hour of the night when Agamemnon was murdered by Klytemnestra and her lover Aegisth. Elektra appears and repeatedly recalls to her memory the image of her murdered father. For her, only one thought in life exits: vengeance and atonement.

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ELEKTRA

One Act Tragedy
by Richard Strauss

Inge Borkh (1921-2018), Elektra
Lisa della Casa (1919-2012), Chrysothemis
Jean Madeira (1918-1972), Klytemnestra
Kurt Bohme (1908-1989), Orest
Max Lorenz (1901-1975), Aegisth

Others:
Alois Pernerstorfer
Anny Felbermayr
Karol Loraine
Erich Majkut
Georg Littasy
Audrey Gerber

Five Maids:
Kerstin Meyer
Sonja Draksler
Sigelinde Wagner
Marilyn Horne
Lisa Otto

Choir of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), Conductor

Live from Salzburg Festival
07 August 1957

Digitally Remastered
(c) 1997, Released under Orfeo

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