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More Sophocles Than Psychoanalysis in 'Elektra'

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 19971126
Author:Roderick Conway Morris

Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
11-26-1997
The psychiatrist's couch can loom large over Richard Strauss's ''Elektra'' and the temptation, in an era of modern-dress ''director's opera,'' metaphorically or even literally to drape the eponymous heroine on the shrink's chaise longue can be overwhelming. Happily the Bavarian State Opera avoids such cliches in its splendid new production, and succeeds in being both true to the original material and adventurous in its staging.

''Elektra'' was premiered in Dresden in 1909, and performed the following year at the Manhattan Opera ...

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