Nicolo Magno and Paul Jake Paule alternate as Orestes while Frances Makil-Ignacio and Lesley Leveriza-Lina alternate as
Klytemnestra. Orestes' sister Elektra will be played alternately by Delphine Buencamino and Miela Sayo.
As the younger performers played with a "sand bomb" Bryceland "turn [ed] inward to herself" to show the birth of a child named Iphigenia (88, 89), alluding to the daughter of Agamemnon and
Klytemnestra sacrificed by her father to speed his passage to Troy.
As well as singers Alwyn Mellor (Chrysothemis), Rebecca de Pont Davies (
Klytemnestra) and Peter Hoare (Aegisthus), Ashington-born Janice Cairns appears as the Overseer.
The plot relates how
Klytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon on his return home from the Trojan War.
Reclaiming
Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation.
Komar's Reclaiming
Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003), which must have appeared too late for the author to take into consideration, it is a valuable addition to the growing body of studies on the changing fortunes of the House of Atreus in twentieth-century literature and thought.
Klytemnestra, outraged mother of a sacrificed daughter, usurps the throne and kills her husband Agamemnon upon his return from sacking Troy; ten years later she is in turn killed by her son Orestes, whose horrifying matricide is ultimately pronounced justifiable as a response to
Klytemnestra's still more horrible crime of androcide.
Anthony sang beautifully as Chrysothemis, but Judith Forst's
Klytemnestra took vocal and acting honors.
By allowing all the principle characters, from King Priam to the warrior Achilles, a say in the narrative, we managed to take in all the legends from the voyages of Odysseus to the curse of
Klytemnestra.
In addition to Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (1987) and Pattern and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, Faulkner, Doblin and Koeppen (1983), she is currently completing a book to be titled "Re-Visions of the Women of the Trojan War: Contemporary Women Authors' Rewriting of Helen and
Klytemnestra."
The much celebrated Brigitte Fass-baender gesticulated and grimaced her way through
Klytemnestra's music with results that were quite simply disastrous.
Keith Warner's frenetic, conceptually driven production of Richard Strauss s Elektra (1909) reinforced a musically brilliant performance of this brutal, uncompromising opera centered on a mythic daughter's longing for revenge of the murder of her father, Agamemnon, by her mother
Klytemnestra.
Dramatic Scenes and Arias gives us generous helpings of her Carmen, Countess (Pique Dame),
Klytemnestra (Elektra) and Brangane (Tristan und Isolde), with the latter two recordings pairing her with the legendary Birgit Nilsson.
On January 25, Opera North offers a rare chance to hear Strauss's Elektra, exactly a 100 years since its premiere, and promising a star-studded cast in the tale of the vengeful daughter of
Klytemnestra who, together with her lover, murdered husband, Agamemnon.
