Claudio Abbado conducts this celebrated 1989 staging of Richard Strauss' Elektra, ... more
performed at the Vienna State Opera, with arguably the finest cast ever assembled for the work - Eva Marton, Brigitte Fassbaender, Cheryl Studer, and a host of other top artists.This performance has become a milestone in the interpretation of the astonishing work, both for its overwhelming musical and dramatic energy as well as its starkly symbolic set.
Advantages: Action packed great special effects Disadvantages: Story needs work
Elektra is a mystical assasin who gets paid alot of money to assasinate people,her legend is famous among many people and is generally feared.A new assignment takes her out to a beautiful lake where she is shocked to find her new target is a little girl and her farther,unable to complete the mission elektra goes on the run with the family who are up againt a mystical clan set on killing the girl,with her new mission to protect the child elecktra uncovers secrets to the tradgedy of her past.
This film didnt get a great press and i belive in some way it follows on from daredevil which i didnt enjoy as much as this one,i actually enjoyed this film as i thought the special effects where really good quite like mortal combat.Its a heart warming story with a lot of action in it and it keeps your intrest througout the film,i would recomend this ...
daxus100 12.09.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Elektra (DVD)
Advantages: Worthwhile watching. Only 80 minutes of actual film. Disadvantages: Supernatural Element.
Elektra
Director: Rob Bowman
Release Date: 2005
Runtime: 97 mins Approx
Certificate: 12.
The Plot.
After her 'death' in Daredevi, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), is revived by a blind man called Stick. She spends a while training with them, but is kicked out of the dojo, due to a reason unknown to her.
She becomes a proffesional assassin and kills people for money. And is sent away on business to kill some, at the time unkown, targets. She goes to enter the place she is staying, and sees some shadows moving about. Who she finds is a girl called Amy (Kirsten Prout) who is her new neighbour. After a lecture about breaking into people homes, Elektra meets the girls father, Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and is invited by the daughter to go to their house for Christmas dinner.
When the identity of her ...
Leigh36295 03.04.2008
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Advantages: Good SFX, good action sequences, deeper potential Disadvantages: Too shallow, too simple, too half-hearted.
Elektra dies at the end of Daredevil. Sorry for spoiling that, but it's something you'll need to know for this film. However, death presents few problems in the Marvel Universe, and Terence Stamp's blind sensei resurrects the basque-wearing beauty for the good of mankind. We learn that she isn't just a kick-ass assassin dressed like an Anne Summers mannequin, oh no: Elektra holds the balance between good and evil in the palm of her hand.
As expected, Jennifer Garner gives a disappointing performance, switching from cold-blooded killer to gooey romantic at the first sign of ER's Goran Visnjic. Terence Stamp, as Obi Wan to Elektra's petulant heroine, is similarly trite: a masterful underperformance of wise one-liners and nothing special.
Instead, the film's emphasis seems to have been given to impressive special effects and some ...
Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949); Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Main Performer
Alan Crofoot (Tenor); Audrey Schuh (Soprano); Benjamin Rayson (Baritone); Bennie Ray (Tenor); Betty Monette White (Contralto (Female alto))
Orchestra / Ensemble(s)
New Orleans Opera Orchestra
Date of Release
09/1999
Label / Distributor
Video Artists International / Metronome
Pieces in Set
2
Running Time
2 hours 12 minutes
Genre(s)
Stage works
SPAR Code
ADD
EAN
89948117025
Work 1
Work Title
Elektra, Op. 58
Excerpt(s)
1. Wo bleibt Elektra? 2. Allein! Weh, ganz allein 3. Elektra! 4. Ich kann nicht sitzen und ins Dunkel starren 5. Es geht ein Lärm los 6. Was willst du? Seht doch, dort! 7. Die Götter! bist doch selber eine Göttin 8. Ich will nichts hören! 9. Ich habe keine guten Nächte 10. Wenn das rechte Blutopfer 11. Was bluten muss? 12. Was sagen sie ihr denn? 13. Orest! Orest ist tot! 14. Platz da! Wer lungert so vor einer Tür? 15. Nun muss es hier von uns geschehn 16. Du! Du! denn du bist stark! 17. Nun denn, allein! 18. Was willst du, fremder Mensch? 19. Elektra! Elektra 20. Orest! (Recognition Scene) 21. Du wirst es tun? Allein? 22. Seid ihr von Sinnen 23. Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben können! 24. Es muss etwas geschehen sein 25. He! Lichter! Lichter! 26. Elektra! Schwester! 27. Ob ich nich höre? 28. Hörst du denn nicht, sie tragen ihn 29. Schweig, und tanze
Composer
Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1909
Conductor
Knud Andersson
Orchestra / Ensemble
New Orleans Opera Orchestra
Main Performer
Alan Crofoot (Tenor), Audrey Schuh (Soprano), Benjamin Rayson (Baritone), Bennie Ray (Tenor), Betty Monette White (Contralto (Female alto)), George Mayer (Bass), Inge Borkh (Soprano), Judith Hughes (Soprano), Karen Kalin (Mezzo soprano), Kay Long (Soprano), Louise de Forest (Soprano), Lydia Neumann (Mezzo soprano), New Orleans Opera Chorus (Chorus), Phyllis Nansen (Soprano), Regina Resnik (Mezzo soprano), Robert Lane (Bass), Rosemary Falgoust Marshall (Soprano)
Opera Part(s)
Alan Crofoot (Aegisthus), Audrey Schuh (Chrysothemis), Benjamin Rayson (Orestes), Bennie Ray (Young Servant), Betty Monette White (First Maidservant), George Mayer (Tutor), Inge Borkh (Elektra), Judith Hughes (Trainbearer), Karen Kalin (Second Maidservant), Kay Long (Fourth Maidservant), Louise de Forest (Overseer), Lydia Neumann (Third Maidservant), New Orleans Opera Chorus, Phyllis Nansen (Confidante), Regina Resnik (Klytemnestra), Robert Lane (Old Servant), Rosemary Falgoust Marshall (Fifth Maidservant)
Location of Work Recording
Opera House, New Orleans, USA
Work 2
Work Title
Macbeth
Excerpt(s)
1. Nel dì della vittoria; Vieni! t'affretta!; Ambizioso spirito tu sei; Or tutti sorgete 2. La luce langue 3. Vegliammo invan due notti 4. Una macchia è qui tuttora
Composer
Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1847
Conductor
Anton Guadagno
Orchestra / Ensemble
New Orleans Opera Orchestra
Main Performer
David Morelock (Bass), George Mayer (Bass), Inge Borkh (Soprano), Lydia Neumann (Mezzo soprano)
Opera Part(s)
David Morelock, George Mayer, Inge Borkh, Lydia Neumann
