Where to Watch Strauss: Elektra (1980)

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Strauss: Elektra' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'Strauss: Elektra' right now, here are some finer points about the Deutsche Grammophon, The Metropolitan Opera music flick.

Strauss: Elektra starring Mignon Dunn, Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Robert Nagy has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 50 min, and a scheduled release date of February 16th, 1980.

Here’s what’s going on in this one... Here's the plot: "It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives for one reason, to kill her mother, Klytämnestra, and her stepfather, Aegisth, the murderers of her father, Agamemnon. In contrast to Elektra's vengeful obsession, her sister Chrysothemis desires to get on with life. When their long-missing brother, Orestes, returns to do the deed, Elektra celebrates with a dance of death and, her sole purpose in life fulfilled, dies. Strauss joined the hermetic plot to music of the utmost opulence, violent and yearning by turns, evoking the cardinal principles of Greek tragedy - pity and terror." .