Richard Strauss January, 1910 - metguild.org€¦ · Electra in Drama •Sophocles (~405 ..),...
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Richard StraussJanuary, 1910
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal1909
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Elektra premiere production
Dresden, 1909
Alfred Roller, designer
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Sigmund Freud, 1909
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Arthur Schnitzler, circa 1900
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Pellèas et Mèlisande, 1902
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Oscar Wilde
• By Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 • Salome, 1891
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Vienna Secession Building, 1897Joseph Maria Olbrich
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Vienna Secession Buildingdetails
Gorgons Owls (Athena) & Laurels (Apollo)
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Archaeology in 1900
Schliemann & the “Mask of Agamemnon” Evans and Linear B Script
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Electra in Drama
• Sophocles (~405 B.C.), Hofmannsthal’s direct source
• Euripides (~415 B.C.)
• Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers (Part 2 of The Oresteia, 458 B.C.)
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The Family of Agamemnon[Part I]
Zeus
Tantalus
Pelops
Atreus
Agamemnon/[Menelaus]
Iphigenia/Electra/Chrysothemis/Orestes
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Klytemnestra’s family [Part I]
Zeus + Taygete (one of the Pleiades)
Lacedaemon (=“Sparta”)
Amyclus
Argalus (=“Argos”)
Cynortas
Oebalus/Gorgophone (daughter of Perseus [son of Zeus & Danaë, & founder of Mycenae] &
Andromeda)
Tyndareus & Leda
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Klytemnestra’s Nuclear Family
Tyndareus + Leda [+ Zeus]
Klytemnestra/Castor [Helen/Polydeuces {Pollux}]
Agamemnon + Klytemnestra [+ Aegisthus, son of Atreus’ brother Thyestes and Thyestes’ own daughter
Pelopia]
Menelaus + Helen [+ Paris]
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The Song of the Nibelung
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Orestes & Electra kill Aegisthus,Krater, 465 BC
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Elektra, Munich 1910
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Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016
Patrice Chèreau
1944 - 2013Der Ring des Nibelung,
Bayreuth, 1976
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Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016
Nina Stemme Waltraud Meier