Elektra's death dance (Leonie Rysanek)

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm (1981)

Leonie Rysanek (Elektra)
Catarina Ligendza (Krysothemis)
Astrid Varnay (Klytemnestra)
Orest (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
Hans Beier (Egist)

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• rysanek
• ligendza
• varnay
• bohm
• strauss
• elektra
• orest
• wiener
• philharmoniker

[CristMelo]

My God! Is it real? This Rysanek's performace is perfect! I love this version!!!

[symyu]

@CristMelo yes! it is for real, as real as you can crisply hear! LOL isn't she just heaven to see and hear? wish she also did it live

[JudahBenHur007]

Could have been more flamboyant... Not that this isn't fantastic it could just use a little bit more.

I always thought that Elektra should be spinning around and jumping like a lunatic, and grab Chrysothemis and drag her into the dance while doing it over the dead bodies of her mother and her lover and lapping in their blood and spreading on herself and having people faint in horror. It's not too much to ask for. ;)

[jgesselberty]

Just found this. It is nothing short of amazing. 

[rkwittem]

Easily the creepiest and most terrifying opera ever written.

[AndrewRudin]

Endless "static close-ups"?  Are you crazy? Do you have eyes? I guess you'd make the same charge of Ingmar Bergman and HIS "endless static close-ups". Ridiculous. This is one of the best filmed operas ever.

[gratecourt]

@JudahBenHur007 Absolutely right. Friedrich was a mediocrity as a stage director (i.e. far better than most of the imbeciles being paid to do it these days), but the idea that he could meander onto a film set and direct a motion picture is an insult to both music and cinema. A fine cast and conductor, a lot of money, and he just hasn't the beginnings of a clue. Endless static closeups. I wonder if the moron had ever even SEEN a film?

[lupoverde1000]

Stupenda interpretazione e regia ma di una drammacità terribile. Bluewind (Torrevento)

[EienNoDB]

Hey symyu! Thanks for sharing this wonderful vid with me! :))

Now, if Dragon Ball is something like this haha... :))

[MrEarwicker]

@JudahBenHur007 Yeah, the singing and orchestra was great here, but the dancing just didn't fit the drama. Physically she just wasn't there.

[AOG93]

@symyu Didn't she also do it live sometime? Anyway, her voice is not for the role because of its demands... so live it would be a real strain. But glad she did it here! Life would be poorer if she hadn't!