Hugo Shirley

Leipzig and Dresden are both staging Elektra. Which city wins?

A revival of Peter Konwitschny's 2005 production trumps the austere, uninvolving dourness of Barbara Frey's new version

Leipzig and Dresden are both staging Elektra. Which city wins?
Evelyn Herlitzius as Elektra Photo: Matthias Creutziger
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Semperoper Dresden; Oper Leipzig

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Elektra at Oper Leipzig

Hugo Shirley is deputy editor of Opera magazine and a research fellow at Oxford Brookes University.