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6.50" x 10.00"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
12.00" x 15.50"
Opera poster - Elektra by Richard Strauss Framed Print
by Moira Risen
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Opera poster - Elektra by Richard Strauss framed print by Moira Risen. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Minimalist opera poster of Elektra by Richard Strauss - a perfect gift for opera fans.
'In the long line of dysfunctional families featured in... more
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Minimalist opera poster of Elektra by Richard Strauss - a perfect gift for opera fans.
'In the long line of dysfunctional families featured in ancient Greek myths and tragedies Elektra's family is probably in the top three.
A father (Agamemnon) who sacrifices Daughter One (Iphigenia) to win a war (the Troyan one), a mother (Klytemnestra) who slays his returning husband with the help of her lover (Aegisthus) and tries to murder her son (Orest) who wants to avenge his father's death while Daughter Two (Elektra) goes crazy in her furious lust for her mothers death and - despite the begging of Daughter Three (Chrysosthemis, the only more or less mentally sane member of the family) - gives the murder weapon (a double headed axe) used on his father to Orest who butchers their mother, her lover and their entire retinue. The story ends with Elektra dying in a hysteric triumphal dance on top of the impressive amount of dead bodies.
Strauss' opera tells the story from Elekt...
About Moira Risen
Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website. All original images and text are copyrighted by Moira Risen. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the original content, for personal or commercial use...
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