The Met: Live in HD - Strauss' ELEKTRA

Saturday April 30 at 1pm

The Met: Live in HD - Strauss’ ELEKTRA

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance for the murder of her father, Agamemnon. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass-baritone Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s mighty take on Greek myth.

Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Teatro all Scala, Milan; the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; the Finnish National Opera, Helsinki; the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin; and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

All Met Opera screenings are Reserved Seating  

$22 ($20 GH Members); $15 Students

The John Drew Theater in the Dina Merrill Pavilion at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, New York 11937, 631.324.0806; Tickets available 24/7 at GuildHall.org and Theatermania.com, Box Office 3 hours prior to curtain, and 1.866.811.4111.

http://www.guildhall.org/events/?id=812&mode=id