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During the "Richard Strauss" anniversary year, the famous Deutsche Gramophone record label releases a new version of the opera Elektra on 11^th June, 2014, the very day of the famous German composer's 150's anniversary.

It is a "historical recording", as the producers of the CD say, along with the participation of the Dresden Staatskapelle. This ensemble conducted the first performance of the operaElektra on 25^th January, 1909, at the Semperoper in Dresden and it also participated in making an only recording under the baton of the conductor Karl Bohm, a recording also was made for the Deutsche Gramophone record label in 1960.

Elektra is a single act tragedy, the result of the first collaboration between the composer Richard Strauss and the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which today is one of the most representative operas, which is based on one of the legends from the Greek mythology. We are talking today about the twentieth discographic version of this opera, the first one being a recording made on 25^th December, 1949, with Dimitri Mitropoulos as a conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

A new electrifying version - this is how it is called - the same version of the concert similar to the first one, which has the famous conductor Christian Thielemann in charge of the Dresden Staatskapelle - an expert in interpreting German music. The cast is also "dreamy" - say the chroniclers about the performers who appear on the cover of the record released on 11^th June, 2014. They are talking about Evelyn Herlitzius the soprano, an ideal interpreter of Richard Strauss' heroine. "She does not sing, she is Elektra herself", it is said about the German artist who sings accompanied by other famous interpreters of the Straussian and Wagnerian repertoire: the mezzosoprano Waltraud Meier - in the role of Klytemnestra, the soprano Anne Scwanewilms - Chrysothemis, the tenor Frank van Aken - Aegisth and the basso René Pape-Orest.