The BBC Proms - Elektra Reviews
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Elektra

The BBC Proms


No. of reviews: 13

Both the Proms performances of Elektra and Salome get full marks
11 Sep 14 / The Spectator
Les Atrides ont de beaux jours devant eux
4 Sep 14 / Forum Opéra
A highlight of the season
3 Sep 14 / The Guardian
Semyon Bychkov presides over a magnificent 'Elektra'
3 Sep 14 / Independent
In the end it was Christine Goerke’s compelling madness that swept all before it
3 Sep 14 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews
Supreme Straussians Christine Goerke and Semyon Bychkov bring the composer's fieriest opera to the BBC Proms
2 Sep 14 / What's on Stage
Second Strauss horror-opera of the Proms weekend fails to hit home
2 Sep 14 / The Arts Desk
Enthralling
2 Sep 14 / Telegraph
The Proms celebrated Strauss’s 150th anniversary with a hair-raising duo of operas
2 Sep 14 / Financial Times
The evening was gripping from the first question to the final despairing cry
2 Sep 14 / Music OMH
There will be blood! Christine Goerke's Elektra stuns at the BBC Proms
2 Sep 14 / Bachtrack
Christine Goerke’s Elektra announced herself in deeper voice than one often hears
2 Sep 14 / Boulezian
What can one say, but elektrafying!
1 Sep 14 / Classical Source
Production details
Cast
Goerke, Palmer, Barkmin, Künzli, Reuter, Bradic, Kushpler, Hipp, Munger, Kupke, Keys, Tursic, Park
(c) Bychkov (d) Concert
Performance dates
31 August 2014
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