Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden curtains at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House shot up one afternoon last week on a stage for an instant ominously black. Trumpets blared a sudden, stunning dissonance. Richard Strauss's Elektra, the most hectic and hard-driven of operas, began its premiere at the Metropolitan, its first performance in New York in 22 years...
...sudden lift of the curtain, the harsh blare of the brasses establish perfectly the mood for Elektra's maniacal lust to avenge the death of her father Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until...
...Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire: Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Giachino Antonio Rossini's II Signor Bruschino...
...Latest talk has been that the Metropolitan has abandoned all idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Rockefeller venture, that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would be invited in on the strength of the enterprise shown in its presentations of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Richard Strauss's Elektra...
...Institute of Music. Proof of the company's security and artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...