ELEKTRA

 

Opera by Richard Strauss to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1908)

Model by MB Underwood (Winter 2016)

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I wanted to focus on Elektra’s singular obsession on the murder of her father, and his lingering presence over the opera. 

The death mask of Agamemnon, discovered at Mycenae in 1876, was the inspiration for my design.