Name: Mourning Becomes Electra
Start: 1967-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1967-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Admin

The Metropolitan Opera

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Stage director

Michael Cacoyannis

Set designer

Boris Aronson

Costume designer

Soprano

Marie Collier

Christine Mannon

Evelyn Lear

Lavinia Mannon

Baritone

Sherrill Milnes

Adam Brant

Tenor

John Reardon

Orin Mannon

Ron Bottcher

Peter Niles

Lilian Sukis

Helen Niles

Bass

John Macurdy

General Ezra Mannon

Raymond Michalski

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Mourning Becomes Electra -  (Mourning Becomes Elektra)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center famously opened in 1966 with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, kicking off a season that featured nine new productions. The company unveiled its final new staging of the season on March 17, 1967, with a second world premiere—Marvin David Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra. An adaptation of plays by Eugene O’Neill, the opera resets the events of Aeschylus’s Oresteia in New England in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, with Agamemnon transformed into a Union general returning from battle. In this broadcast, recorded only weeks after the opera’s first-ever performance, Zubin Mehta conducts a cast of legendary Met artists. John Macurdy and Marie Collier are General Ezra Manon and his wife Christine, alongside John Reardon and Evelyn Lear as their children, Orin and Lavinia. And in only his second season with the company, baritone Sherrill Milnes appears as Adam.

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