9/7/2023 0 Comments Elektra lyric opera chicago![]() Unlike many Elektras, Goerke has a voice that's warm and rich in vibrato rather than diamond-bright. ![]() Elektra is onstage virtually throughout the hour-and-45-minute work, and much of the time Strauss requires her to sing out at full volume over almost impossibly dense orchestration. Goerke is making her Lyric debut in a part that has few equals for difficulty in the dramatic soprano repertory. ![]() CHICAGO - "There will be blood!" insist the ads for Lyric Opera's production of "Elektra," - and indeed there is, cascading down the steps of Agamemnon's palace near the end of Richard Strauss' one-act opera.Įnough blood, in David McVicar's new production that opened the season Saturday night, for soprano Christine Goerke to cap her heroic performance in the title role by smearing it over her hands and face in exultation: Her brother, Orest, has just avenged their father's murder by killing their mother, Klytaemnestra and her lover, Aegisth. ![]()
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