Opera: at the Easter Festival, Elektra on the verge of a dream. Carried by a dazzling Kirill Petrenko and a Berlin Philharmonic, Strauss's opera suffers from heavy staging.
Lively to the point of being breathless, his tempi immediately install a tension that will not let up. Decibels are never a goal in themselves, this sound barrier always remaining transparent, rich in a palette of colors and sound planes that we barely suspected. When it comes to being lyrical, Petrenka remembers that the Bavarian Strauss was an adopted Viennese, and suddenly makes the strings sing…