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Nilsson OWNED this role: She WAS the Dyer's Wife!

Excellent acting and such strong communication, a great actor and amazingly well sung. Brava in every way.

Lehmann was in her early thirties. She sang Turandot as well.

The most visceral of all!!!

I’ll never understand how Lotte Lehmann sustained the tessitura of this part at the premiere.

Linda representação! Carmen muito bem caracterizada.É assim mesmo que os ciganos espanhóis se vestem. E a tribo calon geralmente se vestem assim. Principalmente malagueños y andalusos.

Ah no, il germano Oreste ne' cupi abissi io vuò seguir, or or compagna m'avrai là dell'inferno, a sempiterni guai, al pianto eterno. D'Oreste, d'Aiace ho in seno i tormento, d'Aletto la face già morte mi dà. Squarciatemi il cuore Ceraste, serpenti, o ferro il dolore in me finirà

magnifico

I have heard and read people saying it is not in Mozart's style. Well, well... I couldn't care less... Behrens was simply amazing! Her rendition is pure drama and pure Mozart

Peccato che Callas non piaceva Mozart, credo che questa sia una grande parte a la sua vocalità

WOW!! Brava!! This is why I go to the opera. A.MA.ZING!

Love love this woman

Per Leech ho una forte ammirazione. Mi piace molto come canta , pero' ripeto la scenografia fa Orrore!!!! Mari

Con questa scenografia sminuiscono anche i cantanti ,e credetemi sono molto bravi , Mari

Ma questi tedesco a furia di bere birra il Luppolo gli ha devastato il cervello,,non posso dire che non mi piace il tutto perche' mi fa ORRORE !!!!!i cantanti sono bravi. Ma tutto il resto da assolutamente abominevole. MARI

Ms. Behrens was perfect for this role. She portrayed Elettra as an unstable presence from the beginning (the frizzy red hair certainly helped!). Pavarotti was a superb actor and it was interesting to see him in a role that was not the romantic lead. Frederica von Stade (not Tatiana Troyanos as I originally wrote) was wonderful and made a convincing appearance as the male lead. Illeana Cotrubas as Illia looked and sounded young and "girlish" in the part.

yes. this truly maddening! the acting is awesome! I would have been on my feet!👏👏👏👏👏👏

It's a beautiful opera, it's Strauss for godsake!! Not just anybody or everybody can sing this opera and Birgit held the title for such a long time next to Turandot!

That guy and all his so complicated explanation on how everything should be interpreted is what make this awful music even worse. I thought I was going to listen to Birgit. Instead it is about that boring psychological point of view of the so called stage director. In other words, a lot of crap and NOTHING from Birgit.

All the big Wagner singers sing at least 1 Mozart role. For Birgit and Gweneth it was Donna Anna. Nina Stemme, Jessye Norman, and Deborah Voight sang the Contessa. Anja Silja sang the Queen of the Night. Hildegard chose to sing Elletra. Interesting note, she sang both Elletras, Mozart's and Strauss'.

like her so much rest in peace diva

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing this particular production at the Met and it was simply amazing. Hildegarde Behrens brought it and had the audience on their feet. Brava Diva!!!! RIP.

Behrens may have been the ideal for Wagner/Strauss than Mozart but if it's like they say: if you can make it at the Met, you can make it anywhere. Five stars

This performance was my introduction to "Elettra"...it's STILL memorable for me! I long for a singer that can affect me in such away.

Schade, dass heute so etwas nicht mehr gesendet wird.

I totally agree with your opinion. Hildegard was not a Mozartean as she did not studied in Vienna to learn Mozart's bravura/coloratura arias which are filled with raging emotions and rapid changes of the keys from low to high.

5 years on and still nada. I really hope they release one of the kazillion Capuletis she's done over the years sometime this century.

OOPS....This is NOT the Raoul/ Valentin Duet.

obviously, the dancers are not andaluces. That's why, as a native, I will always visually prefer the version filmed by Rosi.

..Very beautiful...

OMG It's Bertil!!!!

You should better post the duo Raoul Valentine, it's much more interesting and beautifully sung specially by Rick Leech absolutely fabulous in this part! As for the production it's a trash german way of staging opera, that's enough!

Great post <3 Kasarova :D Thanks to all who helped with the captions ^_^

Everyone has said it already - Behrens had a strange technique that didn't always serve her voice. But she is such a compelling musician and actress that all that nonsense can be forgotten. The important thing is to communicate something to the audience, and Behrens always gave 100% commitment to her portrayals.

Yes wrong tempo.

Yes, you are correct. However, in fact, as this clip proves, this is Angela Denning singing the role of Marguerite de Valois. Lucy Peacock sings the role of Valentine de Saint-Bris in the same production. I own a DVD of this Opera and the oversight is simply obvious. I'm sure MBWoland did not intend to make this mistake. And, I hope it will be corrected soon for the sake of the artists and public.

Such a weird opera. Like, why does it even exist?

So awful slow!

@teddydiva the highest note in the whole aria is the soprano C

I believe its an A flat or high C...I dont have my score on me to check

didn't understand a word, but was mesmerized by that face: the prominent cheek bones and the protruding jaw. an "underbite" so to speak. she couldn't have been anything BUT a singer!

quelle merde cette production ! encore de l'eurotrash

You put it better than anyone. MBWoland, Bless you. Have you the duet from act 3. Don't worry about the Swedish. I'll buy a lebretto.

What a wonderful and sincere singer!

hildegard behrens .1937-2009 I will always love and miss her...

Love Her in this Aria! She Kicks Major Ass! LOVE IT!!!

simplemente la mejor electra que se haya visto en mozart y en strauss tambien claro Brava Hidelgar!!!!

I agree!!

OMG: who cares if there are 8 notes that don't speak and she is stylistically over the top! She's amazing! And the staccatti were not nearly as bad as I have heard from others. Brava!

BIRGIT NILSSON!!!She is amazing!!! Tack så jättemycket !!!