Elektra

Elektra Soundtrack

There is a special category of German opera--we might call it the repellent masterpiece--in which some works of Richard Strauss are prominent, and Elektra is perhaps the pinnacle, certainly a unique experience. This production fulfills all the opera's requirements for mastery and repulsion. Opera frequently deals with dysfunctional families, but the clan of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Elektra, and Orestes stands out even when compared with those of Oedipus or Medea. Deep, burning hatred, a thirst for revenge, a violent distaste for one's nearest and dearest are the driving forces in this work, which is essentially about the imperative of killing Mommy because she has murdered Daddy, who long ago killed Little Sister. Creating a musical masterpiece out of such material was a daunting challenge, and Richard Strauss fulfilled it spectacularly with music that celebrates the powers of darkness. This Vienna State Opera production captures the music's shadowy, muscular essence. --Joe McLellan

Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Director: Rob Bowman
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Kirsten Prout, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.7
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
10%
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2005
97
$24,100,000
Website
1,903 Views
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1Never There (She Stabs) 
2Hey Kids 
3Everyone is Wrong 
4Sooner or Later 
5Thousand Mile Wish 
6Wonder 
7Your Own Disaster 
8Breathe No More 
9Photograph 
10Save Me 
11Beautiful 
12Hollow 
13Angels With Even Filthier Souls 
145 Years 
15In The Light 
16Main Title 
17Insomnia 
18Ninjas 
19The Hand 
20Stick 
21The Kiss 
22Tattoo 
23The Forest 
24Just a Girl 
25Homecoming 

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