Elektra – staged by La Fura dels Baus

NorrlandsOperan and the Catalan theatre art collective La Fura dels Baus have created a unique monumental outdoor performance of Richard Strauss’s one-act opera Elektra. Cranes, mechanical giants with singers standing inside their chests, skips filled with blood – Elektra is NorrlandsOperan’s biggest and most complex production ever, including many special effects: “Suddenly, the front of the large containers opened up. Bloody water came gushing out in copious amounts. The water level on the graveyard rose and turned red.” (Kulturkorren)