Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festival stage in the title role, accompanied by the marvelous Ariane Baumgartner and Asmik Grigorian in the roles of Klytaemnestra and Chrysothemis, respectively.

Elektra

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in this performance of Wagner's opera recorded live in 2013. The performance was held for the Salzburg Easter Festival and featured vocalists including Johan Botha, Michaela Schuster, Stephen Milling and Wolfgang Koch.

Parsifal live at the Salzburg Easter Festival

The opera takes place in a operetta-like milieu in Vienna in the 1860s. Protagonists are an impoverished noble family and their daughters of marriageable age, Arabella and Zdenka, as well as the rich Slavic nobles Mandryka and the young officer Matteo. After all sorts of amorous entanglements the drama comes to a happy end.