O Brother, where art thou ?
Claus Guth directs Elektra in Frankfurt (***½)
Author : Jos Hermans
The clinical term "hysteria" is still brand new when Hugo von Hofmannsthal becomes Richard Strauss's librettist and, with Elektra, stirs up operatic literature with a piece steeped in pathological psychology : a priestess without a temple, whose only gruesome ritual i…
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