Queen Clytemnestra assassinates King Agamemnon Their daughter Elektra lives for the day when her fathers death will be avenged Like a curse the vendetta must be fulfilled but is Elektra capable of committing the irreparable At Grand Théâtre de Genève the cogs of revenge are set in motion by director Ulrich Rasche who imprisons the characters of Elektra in a spectacular scenic device a steel tower weighing almost twelve tons in perpetual rotation In the pit conductor Jonathan Nott and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande confront the musical challenges of Strauss intoxicating oneact score The female characters at the centre of the drama are sung by three artists of the highest calibre Ingela Brimberg as Elektra Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Clytemnestra
