The BBC Proms - Elektra Reviews | 21 April 2021 |

Performance reviews
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ElektraThe BBC PromsNo. of reviews: 13 | ![]() |
Both the Proms performances of Elektra and Salome get full marks |
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Les Atrides ont de beaux jours devant eux |
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A highlight of the season |
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Semyon Bychkov presides over a magnificent 'Elektra' |
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In the end it was Christine Goerke’s compelling madness that swept all before it |
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Supreme Straussians Christine Goerke and Semyon Bychkov bring the composer's fieriest opera to the BBC Proms |
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Second Strauss horror-opera of the Proms weekend fails to hit home |
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Enthralling |
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The Proms celebrated Strauss’s 150th anniversary with a hair-raising duo of operas |
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The evening was gripping from the first question to the final despairing cry |
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There will be blood! Christine Goerke's Elektra stuns at the BBC Proms |
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Christine Goerke’s Elektra announced herself in deeper voice than one often hears |
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What can one say, but elektrafying! |
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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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