Elektra 1979Welsh National Opera
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This week of performances showed Welsh National at a time when it routinely employed the cream of continental directors, unfamiliar to other British companies. To the three performances of their new Magic Flute by a young Swedish team, they added these two performances of Elektra, a work not heard in Glasgow since before the First World War. The East German Harry Kupfer would shortly direct a Ring Cycle at Bayreuth with a number of leading British performers, including Anne Evans as Brünnhilde and John Tomlinson as Wotan. Pauline Tinsley was already a familiar figure to Scottish audiences, and several of these young singers, including Willard White and Anne Mason, would soon become so.
Performance Cast
- First Maid
- Second Maid
- Third Maid
- Fourth Maid
- Fifth Maid
- Elektra daughter of Klytämnestra and Agamemnon
- Chrysothemis sister to Elektra and Orest
- Klytämnestra widow of Agamemnon
- Confidante
- Trainbearer
- Young Servant
- Old Servant
- Orest son of Klytämnestra and Agamemnon
- Tutor in Orest's service
- Aegisth Klytämnestra's lover
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John Mitchinson (May 16)
Neville Ackerman (May 19)