Word: klytemnestra
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...psychodrama buried deep in the tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real pleasures of the production were the whiplash performance of Soprano Hildegard Behrens in the title role and the gloriously haunted Klytemnestra of Mezzo Christa Ludwig. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, leading his first Elektra, sought out the brutal score's elusive lyric elements and found most of them...
...seasons she has frequently done both, demonstrating the versatility as well as the power of her portrayals by encompassing the quirky pathos of the aged countess in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, the bawdy wit of Mistress Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff, the blood-crazed wrath of Klytemnestra in Strauss's Elektra...
...respect be paid the players. Mr. Herbert Strathmore Wyndham Gittens's clear and beautifully modulated English voice is admirable for the part of Klytemnestra, and it was skillfully pitched. Mr. Paul Elmer More, literary editor of The Nation, permitted himself to write ecstatically in the New York Evening Post (June 18) that Mr. Wyndham-Gittens's "face and eyes would be a fortune to any tragedy queen on the stage." Be that as it may, his eyes and face during those speeches of sinister irony which lead to the murder of the King were not such as one would yearn...
...rapt and benumbed, in her chariot where she has been left when the King, quiting his, has walked into his palace on that fatal Purple Carpet, very symbol of mortals trampling on that which belongs to the gods only. "I can't stand here wrangling with a slave," says Klytemnestra, and goes back into the palace where she has more urgent work in hand...
...including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss...