Elektra

In this production, history, psychoanalysis and modern-day apocalyptic visions are presented with compelling urgency through Friedrich's staging and Böhm's artistic mastery. "Elektra" becomes a contemporary myth of desperate, unrelenting humanity. "Seldom before, surely, have the often erotic ideas of Hofmannsthal's libretto been so explicitly delineated or its tragic grandeur so movingly realised. [...] Leonie Rysanek, in her first and possibly only Elektra, surmounted the score's superhuman demands with an interpretive achievement that crowns her career of more than 30 years. [...] As a whole, the film showed that opera on television can be a great experience..." (Daily Telegraph)