ELEKTRA

About the show

In a rundown family home on the outskirts of Oslo, a horrific revenge killing takes place. Richard Strauss’ passionate music meets Ole Anders Tandberg’s new version of the old tale about Elektra. Elektra worships her dead father and dreams about her brother returning home and killing their mother. Welcome to a proper family drama – in which a dream becomes a brutal and bloody reality. Richard Strauss wrote this short and intense opera in 1909, not long after Freud published his books on the subconscious, trauma and sexuality. It fell like a bombshell in the music scene and continues to rattle us to this very day.