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ELEKTRA, Vienna State Opera
Ricarda Merbeth almost delivers a reference to my taste in the role of Elektra. The embodiment of an electrified bundle of erotic-neurotic, animal energy that kills the main protagonist from within in a crazy final dance. Both her groundbreaking forti and her extreme piani, the melodic declamation – all the difficulties of this part I have never heard without loss in my memory. Connoisseurs know that is hardly possible in this fraught part. Merbeth managed it. There was really something in the air that evening.
