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Elektra
Electra, also spelt Elektra, was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. Electra or Elektra may also refer to: Animals * ''Electra'' (bryozoan), a genus of aquatic invertebrates * ''Elektra'' (bug), a genus of insects in the tribe Mirini * Electra (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse Arts and entertainment :''For fictional characters, see Elektra (name).'' Comics * '' Elektra: Assassin'' (1986), a comics miniseries dedicated to the Marvel character Film * ''Electra'' (1962 film), based on the Euripides play * ''Electra'', a 1996 Shannon Tweed film * ''Elektra'' (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character * ''Elektra'' (2010 film), a Malayalam psychological drama film * ''Electra'' (2023 film), a Czech short film by Daria Kashcheeva * ''Electra'' (2024 film), an American and Italian independent film Music Groups * :de:Electra (deutsche Band), a German prog-rock band * Electra (band), an electronic musical band from the United Kingdom * Electra (Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (2005 Film)
''Elektra'' is a 2005 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Elektra Natchios and directed by Rob Bowman. It is a spin-off from the film '' Daredevil'' (2003), with Jennifer Garner reprising her role as the titular character. The story follows Elektra, an assassin who must protect a man and his prodigy daughter from another assassin who was hired by the Hand. Goran Višnjić, Will Yun Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Terence Stamp also star. For the screenplay, Zak Penn, Stuart Zicherman, and M. Raven Metzner received "written by" credit. Mark Steven Johnson received credit for "motion picture characters" and Frank Miller for "comic book characters". Filming started in early May 2004 in Vancouver. The film was released on January 14, 2005. Upon its release, ''Elektra'' was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $57 million against a production budget of $43–65 million. It received negative reviews from critics, who found the script and storyline lackin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (opera)
''Elektra'', Opus number, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ''Elektra''. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Semperoper, Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. History While based on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy ''Electra (Sophocles play), Electra'', the opera is highly Modernism, modernist and Expressionist music, expressionist in style. Hofmannsthal's and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Electra, Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology as she meets with other characters, mostly one at a time. (The order of these conversations closely follows Sophocles' play.) The other characters are Clytemnestra, Klytaemnestra, her mother and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (2010 Film)
''Elektra'' is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language psychological drama film co-written and directed by Shyamaprasad, starring Nayanthara, Manisha Koirala, Prakash Raj, Biju Menon, and Skanda Ashok. It was produced by N. B. Vindhyan, who also produced Shyamaprasad's '' Ore Kadal'' (2007). The film is based on the story of the Greek mythological character Electra, although it has a contemporary setting in an aristocratic family in Kerala. It draws strongly on four adaptations of the myth: ''Electra'' by Sophocles, ''Electra'' by Euripides, ''Oresteia'' by Aeschylus and ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' by Eugene O’Neill (1931). Key to the film is the concept of the Electra complex; a daughter's psychosexual competition with her mother for her father's affection. The film premiered at the International Film Festival of India in November 2010. It made its international premiere at the 7th Dubai International Film Festival. Cast * Nayanthara as Elektra Alexander * Manisha Koirala as Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (name)
Elektra, also spelt Electra, is a female given name. Its Greek origin ( Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) means "amber", and thus "shining", "incandescent". Names with similar meanings are Lucy and Svetlana. Variants are Ilektra, Ela, Elka, Elke, Elek, Elektrine. People with the given name ;Electra * Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology * Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology * Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001) * Electra Carlin (1912–2000) * Electra Collins Doren (1861–1927), suffragette and library scientist * Electra Elite, Serbian singer and sex worker * Electra Mustaine (born 1998) * Electra Waggoner (1882–1925) * Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), American museum founder ;Elektra * Elektra, name used by Salina Bartunek, competitor on '' American Gladiators'' * Elektra, ring name of Donna Adamo (born 1970), American wrestler * Elektra Fence, English drag queen * Elektra Shock (born 1992), New Zealand drag perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electra
Electra, also spelt Elektra (; ; ), is one of the most popular Greek mythology, mythological characters in tragedies.Evans (1970), p. 79 She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, ''Electra (Sophocles play), Electra'' by Sophocles and ''Electra (Euripides play), Electra'' by Euripides. She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus, Vittorio Alfieri, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hofmannsthal, Eugene O'Neill, and Jean-Paul Sartre. She is a vengeful soul in ''Oresteia#The Libation Bearers, The Libation Bearers'', the second play of Aeschylus' ''Oresteia'' trilogy. She plans out an attack with her brother to kill their mother, Clytemnestra. In psychology, the Electra complex is named after her. Family Electra's parents were King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. Her sisters were Iphigenia and Chrysothemis, and her brother was Orestes (mythology), Orestes. In the ''Iliad'', Homer is understood to be referring to Electra in mentioning "Laodice" as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electra (Euripides Play)
Electra, also spelt Elektra (; ; ), is one of the most popular mythological characters in tragedies.Evans (1970), p. 79 She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, '' Electra'' by Sophocles and '' Electra'' by Euripides. She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, Eugene O'Neill, and Jean-Paul Sartre. She is a vengeful soul in '' The Libation Bearers'', the second play of Aeschylus' '' Oresteia'' trilogy. She plans out an attack with her brother to kill their mother, Clytemnestra. In psychology, the Electra complex is named after her. Family Electra's parents were King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. Her sisters were Iphigenia and Chrysothemis, and her brother was Orestes. In the ''Iliad'', Homer is understood to be referring to Electra in mentioning "Laodice" as a daughter of Agamemnon. Murder of Agamemnon Electra was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electra (Sophocles Play)
''Electra'', also ''Elektra'' or ''The Electra'' (, ''Ēlektra''), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the '' Philoctetes'' (409 BC) and the '' Oedipus at Colonus'' (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC. Storyline Set in the city of Mycenae a few years after the Trojan War, the play tells of a bitter struggle for justice by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus. When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War, his wife Clytemnestra (who has taken Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus as a lover) kills him. Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods. Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, rescued her younger brother Orestes from her mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra (Suspekt Album)
Elektra is the fourth studio album from Danish hip hop group Suspekt, released 12 September 2011. It is produced by Rune Rask and Jonas Vestergaard. The symphony orchestra Czech Film Orchestra is featured on ''Brænder Byen Ned'' (''Burning Down The City''), ''Helt Alene'' (''All Alone''), ''Nyt Pas'' (''New Passport'', which features a 3 minutes classical music ending), and ''Parasitter'' (''Parasites''). The orchestral music was recorded in the Rudolfinum Concert Hall, Prague, and was composed and orchestrated by Frederik Magle who also plays pipe organ on ''Parasitter''. Danish singer Tina Dickow is featured on ''Helt Alene''. The album was presented in public for the first time at the release concert in Koncerthuset (Copenhagen), 10 September 2011. The concert was reviewed by the music magazine ''Gaffa'', who gave it 6 stars ''Elektra'' was favorably reviewed by Danish press including reviews in all major newspapers upon its release. The album was certified gold in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, libretto, librettist, Poetry, poet, Playwdramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Christian Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner (1852–1904), and a Christian Austrian–Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1841–1915).Carl Emil Schorske, Schorske, Carl E. ''Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture'', 1980. His grandfather was Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal and his great-grandfather was Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal, from whom his family inherited the noble title "Edler von Hofmannsthal", was a Jewish tobacco farmer ennobled by the Austrian emperor.J. D. McClatchy, McClatchy, J. D. (editor). ''The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal'', Princeton University Press, 2008, . Chapter 1 contains a brief biog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electra (1962 Film)
''Electra'' ( ''Ilektra'') is a 1962 Greek film based on the play ''Electra'', written by Euripides. It was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, serving as the first installment of his "Greek tragedy" trilogy, followed by ''The Trojan Women'' in 1971 and ''Iphigenia'' in 1977. The film starred Irene Papas in the lead role as Elektra and Giannis Fertis as Orestis. Plot King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Agamemnon's cousin and childhood playmate, Aegisthus. Of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's children, Orestes goes into exile for safety, while Electra is confined to the palace for some years and then forced to marry a peasant to disgrace her and any children. Some years later, Electra seeks revenge with the help of her brother Orestes and their cousin Pylades. Orestes and Pylades attend a festival to Bacchus hosted by Aegisthus. When Aegisthus challenges Orestes to a mock knife fight, Orestes uses the opportunity to kill him. Electra invites Clytemnestra to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikis Theodorakis
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films '' Zorba the Greek'' (1964), '' Z'' (1969), and '' Serpico'' (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for ''Z''. For the score in ''Serpico'', he earned Grammy nominations. Furthermore, for the score to ''Zorba the Greek'', with its song "Zorba's Dance", he was nominated for a Golden Globe. He composed the "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen", which has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust" and possibly his best work. Up until his death, he was viewed as Greece's best-known living composer. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. Politically, he was associated with the left because of his long-standing ties to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He was an MP for the KKE from 1981 to 1990. Despite this, however, he ran as an independent cand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electra (Giraudoux Play)
'' Electra '' (French title: ''Électre'') is a two-act play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It was the first Giraudoux play to employ the staging of Louis Jouvet. Based on the classic myth of antiquity, ''Electra'' has a surprisingly tragic force, without losing the spirit and sparkling humor that made Jean Giraudoux one of the most important playwrights of the mid twentieth century. Original productions ''Électre'' was translated into English as ''Electra'' in 1955 by Winifred Smith, and again in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd. ''Électre'' was first performed on 13 May 1937 in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet.Inskip, Donald, (1958), '' Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist'', p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York. Plot summary Agamemnon, The King of Argos, had sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the gods. In revenge, his wife, Clytemnestra, assisted by her lover, Aegisthus, killed him on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
