Strauss ELEKTRA (Anja Silja, Berit Lindholm, Jean Madeira, Gerd Nienstedt, Jean Giraudeau)

ELEKTRA
Opera by Richard Strauss
Elektra - Anja Silja
Chrysothemis - Berit Lindholm
Klytemnestra - Jean Madeira
Orest - Gerd Nienstedt
Aegisth - Jean Giraudeau
Orchestra ORTF
Conducted by Georges Sebastian
France, 1964
Der holle rache from Queen Of The Night
(Mozart's The Magic Flute). Sung by Anja Silja (1958?), she was born in 1940 so she was still in her teens. She sang a production in Paris 1959 as Queen Of The Night and was only 19 at the time.
(Excerpts only! This is an enhanced audio. Equalization and plenty of envelopes were applied to balance the sound. The intro video is Mount Samat Cross seen from Manila Bay along Roxas Boulevard, filmed September 2016.)
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OUTLINE...
(57:43) - Anja Silja singing a super coloratura aria of Queen Of The Night.
(00:00) - Elektra's monologue. Elektra vividly recounts seeing her father being murdered by his wife and her concubine lover. She vows to restore his honor and offer sacrificial dances and to slaughter his murderers.
(09:20) - Procession and entrance of Klytemnestra. She had a nightmare about Orest strangling her to death and the whole household is awake, doing sacrificial rituals to banish her nightmares.
(19:24) - Klytemnestra wishes to speak to Elektra alone and reveals her troubles to Elektra. There has to be magical rites and to find the correct sacrifice so her nightmares would finally end.
(25:48) - Elektra reveals that she knows the rites and who should be sacrificed, playing a guessing game with her mother
(30:12) - Elektra reveals that her mother Klytemnestra herself should be the one to be sacrificed and killed so all nightmares would end.
(31:59) - Klytemnestra receives news that Orest is dead and goes back into the house, bursting into hysterical laughter as she is ecstatic with the good news
(34:26) - Orest tells Elektra that her brother is alive. Elektra does not recognize her brother, that he is alive, but he gives her a hint and she comes to the realization that it is Orest she is speaking to.
(40:19) - Murder of Klytemnestra and Aegisth
(47:58) - Chrysothemis rushes into the scene to deliver news that Orest has come home and will be their savior.
(53:52) - Elektra bursts into a frenzied dance and then suddenly falls dead on the floor (the dance was probably more exhausting the The Rite Of Spring?). Her sister calls out for help but nobody hears them.
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More Jean Madeira as Klytemnestra
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[@draganvidic2039]

Anja Silja is never boring. Her diction is perfect and I love her rolling r…
Maybe close to the microphone but it often amazing how her voice carried in the theatre despite being a lyric coloratura by nature.
Lots of metallic squillo that’s for sure.

[@peternystrom9568]

Elektra at 24 years of age !!!!!

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Brava, Silja.

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Magnifica esecuzione !

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Anja Silja was only 19 here doing the Queen Of The Night!
czcams.com/video/QLjqgp2G2OQ/video.html

[@seancoxen3329]

Why is Orest cut out of the performance?

[@RattusYu]

These are only excerpts, the audio is available from Opera Depot.