Elektra (opera)
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Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborat
The composer in 1911
Annie Krull as Elektra, c. 1909
Anna von Mildenburg as Klytaemnestra in the Vienna Court Opera's 1909 production
Curtain call at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2009
Electra (Sophocles play)
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Electra, is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. The original publication date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus leads scholars to believe it wa
Dutch actress Marie Hamel in costume as Clytemnestra (1920)
Statue of Orestes and Electra, National Museum, Rome
Scene from a 2010 Spanish production: the chorus is the women of Mycenae; Electra is at far right.