Richard StraussJanuary, 1910

Hugo von Hofmannsthal1909

Elektra premiere production

Dresden, 1909

Alfred Roller, designer

Sigmund Freud, 1909

Arthur Schnitzler, circa 1900

Pellèas et Mèlisande, 1902

Oscar Wilde

• By Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 • Salome, 1891

Vienna Secession Building, 1897Joseph Maria Olbrich

Vienna Secession Buildingdetails

Gorgons Owls (Athena) & Laurels (Apollo)

Archaeology in 1900

Schliemann & the “Mask of Agamemnon” Evans and Linear B Script

Electra in Drama

• Sophocles (~405 B.C.), Hofmannsthal’s direct source

• Euripides (~415 B.C.)

• Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers (Part 2 of The Oresteia, 458 B.C.)

The Family of Agamemnon[Part I]

Zeus

Tantalus

Pelops

Atreus

Agamemnon/[Menelaus]

Iphigenia/Electra/Chrysothemis/Orestes

Klytemnestra’s family [Part I]

Zeus + Taygete (one of the Pleiades)

Lacedaemon (=“Sparta”)

Amyclus

Argalus (=“Argos”)

Cynortas

Oebalus/Gorgophone (daughter of Perseus [son of Zeus & Danaë, & founder of Mycenae] &

Andromeda)

Tyndareus & Leda

Klytemnestra’s Nuclear Family

Tyndareus + Leda [+ Zeus]

Klytemnestra/Castor [Helen/Polydeuces {Pollux}]

Agamemnon + Klytemnestra [+ Aegisthus, son of Atreus’ brother Thyestes and Thyestes’ own daughter

Pelopia]

Menelaus + Helen [+ Paris]

The Song of the Nibelung

Orestes & Electra kill Aegisthus,Krater, 465 BC

Elektra, Munich 1910

Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016

Patrice Chèreau

1944 - 2013Der Ring des Nibelung,

Bayreuth, 1976

Elektra, Metropolitan, 2016

Nina Stemme Waltraud Meier