Elektra, la tueuse légendaire, a pour mission de liquider ses nouveaux voisins, Mark Miller et sa fille Abby, que poursuit la puissante et maléfique organisation "La Main". Mais impulsivement, la belle se retourne contre ses commanditaires et décide de sauver ses proies...

Opéra de Richard Strauss, dernière mise en scène de Patrice Chéreau, festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2013

The Martin Kušej production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Opernhaus Zurich on 30 November and 4 December 2005. Eva Johansson stars as Elektra, with Marjana Lipovšek as Klytämnestra, Melanie Diener as Chrysothemis, Rudolf Schashing as Aegisth, and Alfred Muff as Orest. Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.

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.

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994. Hildegard Behrens stars as Elektra, with Deborah Voigt as Chrysothemis, Brigitte Fassbaender as Klytämnestra, Donald McIntyre as Orest, and James King as Aegisth. James Levine conducts.

Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich.

un film de Guy Godefroy

Film version of Richard Strauss's one-act opera, Elektra.

The richness and intensity of Richard Strauss's masterful one-act opera, in Herbert Wernicke's compelling production, vividly portrays the relentless pursuit and ecstatic realization of vengeance. Featuring Linda Watson, Jane Henschel, Manuela Uhl, Rene Kollo, and Albert Dohmen. The Philharmonia Chor Wien and Münchner Philharmoniker are conducted by Christian Thielemann

Set in the desolate wreckage of Beirut’s Piccadilly Theater after decades of war, the film recounts three days in the life of a writer and actors. As they seek to revive the ghostly theater with a production of Sophocles’ Elektra, the actors witness the vivid dreams of the writer who has to confront the contempt and lies of the two-faced actors and ultimately her own murder.

La grande actrice chanteuse Nina Stemme donne une performance déchirante dans le rôle-titre du drame flamboyant en un acte de Strauss, adapté du mythe grec ancien. La production acclamée de Patrice Chéreau - la dernière mise en scène sur laquelle il a travaillé avant sa mort en 2013 - met également en vedette Waltraud Meier dans le rôle de Klytämnestra, la mère cauchemardesque d'Elektra, Adrianne Pieczonka dans Chrysothemis, sa sœur, et Eric Owens dans Orest, leur frère, dont le retour à la maison amène leur histoire de famille à un point culminant terrifiant. Esa-Pekka Salonen dirige la partition monumentale et très influente.

Récemment retraitée de l’industrie du porno, la superstar Elektra Luxx est enceinte de Nick Chapel, une rock star décédée. Elle tente une reconversion en devenant éducatrice sexuelle pour les femmes au foyer, mais un visage de son passé, l’hôtesse de l’air Cora, resurgit en lui soumettant une proposition. En échange d’un manuscrit (volé) de paroles de chansons de Nick Chapel, qui parlent toutes de son amour pour Elektra, cette dernière devra séduire le fiancé de Cora. Elektra accepte un peu à contrecoeur – une situation engendrant une série hilarante d’évènements qui vont la confronter à des détectives privés, des bloggeurs hot, ses voisins plutôt instables émotionnellement, et la Vierge Marie en personne alors qu’elle-même tente de s’adapter à la maternité et mûrir.

Cela fait quinze ans depuis la mort de son père, Agamemnon, et Elektra brûle toujours de haine pour Aegisztosz, qui a conspiré avec la mère d'Elektra pour le tuer.

Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon. Their daughter, Elektra, lives for the day when her father's death will be avenged. Like a curse, the vendetta must be fulfilled, but is Elektra capable of committing the irreparable? At Grand Théâtre de Genève, the cogs of revenge are set in motion by director Ulrich Rasche, who imprisons the characters of Elektra in a spectacular scenic device: a steel tower weighing almost twelve tons in perpetual rotation. In the pit, conductor Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande confront the musical challenges of Strauss' intoxicating one-act score. The female characters at the centre of the drama are sung by three artists of the highest calibre: Ingela Brimberg as Elektra, Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Clytemnestra.

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as Elektra, with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Chrysothemis, Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Robert Gambill as Aegisth, and René Pape as Orest. Daniele Gatti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker.