Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko

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A desperate woman: Elektra is driven by grief, pain, and hatred. She wants to avenge the death of her father, who was murdered by her mother and her mother’s lover. Hugo von Hofmansthal’s retelling of the tragedy of the Greek princess was ideal operatic material for the music dramatist Richard Strauss, who painted this psychological portrait of a woman in existential conflict in richly coloured, intense scenes. Following staged performances at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, Kirill Petrenko now conducts a concert version. The title role is performed by world-renowned dramatic soprano Nina Stemme.

Program and cast

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko - conductor
Michaela Schuster - mezzo-soprano (Clytemnestra)
Nina Stemme - soprano (Elektra)
Elza van den Heever - soprano (Chrysothemis)
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke - tenor (Aegisthus)
Johan Reuter - bass-baritone (Orestes)
Anthony Robin Schneider - bass (Carer of Orestes)
Anna Denisova - soprano (The Tow Carrier)
Lucas van Lierop - Tenor (A Young Servant)
Andrew Harris - Bass (An Old Servant)
Kirsi Tiihonen - soprano (The Overseer)
Katharina Magiera - Old (First Maid)
Alexandra Ionis - mezzo-soprano (Third Maid)
Lauren Fagan - Soprano (Fifth Maid)
Marvic Monreal - Mezzo-soprano (Second Maid)
Dorothea Herbert - Soprano (Fourth Maid)
Serafina Starke - soprano (The Confidant)
Berlin Radio Choir

Richard Strauss
Elektra, opera in one act 

Berliner Philharmonie

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture.

 

The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall, an area that for decades suffered from isolation and drabness but that today offers ideal centrality, greenness, and accessibility. Its cross street and postal address is Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The neighborhood, often dubbed the Kulturforum, can be reached on foot from the Potsdamer Platz station.

 

Actually a two-venue facility with connecting lobby, the Philharmonie comprises a Großer Saal of 2,440 seats for orchestral concerts and a chamber-music hall, the Kammermusiksaal, of 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller venue was added only in the 1980s.

 

By subway (U-Bahn):

Lines U2 (Bahnhöfe Potsdamer Platz or MendelssohnBartholdy-Park)

By city train (S-Bahn):

Lines S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz)

By regional train:

Lines RE3, RE4, RE5 (Potsdamer Platz)

By bus directly to the Philharmonie:

Lines 200 (Philharmonie), M48, M85 (Kulturforum or Varian-Fry-Straße),
Further bus lines: M29 (Potsdamer Brücke), M41 (Potsdamer Platz)

By car:

A limited number of parking spaces are available on the Philharmonie property. Please use the parking garages under the Sony Center and under the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (Entrance at Reichpietschufer).

By bycicle:

A limited number of bycicle stands are available on front and behind the Philharmonie. Additional stands can be found in front of the State Library (Staatsbibliothek) across the street.

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