Word: elektra
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...Salome in memory. But she gave an overpowering impression of the willful, depraved teenager, from her disheveled entrance to her final kisses on the lips of John the Baptist's severed head. Soprano Goltz (a strikingly versatile singer with a repertory of 116 roles, ranging from Musetta to Elektra) is most famous for her appearances in Richard Strauss's operas in Vienna, and last week she proved why. She sang the fiendishly hard music with complete mastery and with silvery smoothness, even when her voice had to pierce through the orchestra's loudest blasts...
Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
Jean Ritchie Sings (Elektra LP). Kentucky's Jean Ritchie sings with sweet clarity and mountain-folk feeling old songs traditional in her area. Among her best: Hush, Little Baby, The Cuckoo, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Elektra, with Varnay, Hoengen, Svanholm, Wegner, Schoeffler...