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Elektra - 1909

Richard Strauss 1864 - 1949

Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

First performance at Dresden, Hoftheater on 25 January 1909

Synopsis

German libretto - Spanish translation

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This dark tragedy took Strauss's music to the borders of atonality. It was the composer's first setting of a libretto by his long-term collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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