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FAQs Dark, intense, and harrowing, Elektra by Richard Strauss is one of the most powerful operas in the modern repertoire. Premiered in 1909 at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, this one-act work is based on Sophocles’ tragedy, in which revenge and madness intertwine in a family tale marked by crime and sorrow.
Clytemnestra, Elektra’s mother, has murdered her husband Agamemnon with the complicity of her lover Aegisthus, in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. Since then, she lives tormented by guilt and the fear of retaliation from her daughters, Elektra and Chrysothemis. Years later, Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra — and thought by all to be dead — returns secretly to fulfill his tragic destiny: to avenge his father by killing his mother and her lover. Faced with this, Chrysothemis flees, and Elektra, consumed by the intensity of vengeance fulfilled, enters a trance, dancing until she dies.
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