Elektra discography

!Year

!Width="200"|Cast
(Elektra, Chrysothemis,
Klytemnestra, Orestes, Aegisthus)

!Width="300"|Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra

!Label[http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLSTELEK.HTM Recordings of Elektra on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk]

|Erna Schlüter
Paul Schöffler
Ljuba Welitsch
Walter Widdop

|Thomas Beecham
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & chorus
(final scenes only, recorded on 13–15 October)

|CD: Naxos Records
Cat: 8.111372

|Astrid Varnay
Irene Jessner
Elena Nicolaidi
Herbert Janssen
Frederick Jagel

|Dimitri Mitropoulos
New York Philharmonic orchestra & chorus
(recorded on 25 December)

|CD: Guild Immortal
Cat: GHCD 2213/4

|Astrid Varnay
Leonie Rysanek
Res Fischer
Hans Hotter
Helmut Melchert

|Richard Kraus
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne & chorus
(recorded in studio on 22–28 August)

|CD: Capriccio
Cat: C5008

|Inge Borkh
Lisa Della Casa
Jean Madeira
Kurt Böhme
Max Lorenz

|Dimitri Mitropoulos
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus

|CD: Orfeo
Cat: C456972I

|Sigrid Ekkehard
Hedwig Müller-Bütow
Margarete Klose
Gerhard Niese
Günter Treptow

|Lovro von Matačić
Staatskapelle Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin (Mono, Live, October 3, 1957)

|CD: Weitblick
Cat: SSS0049-2

|Gerda Lammers
Hedwig Müller-Bütow
Georgine von Milinkovic
Edgar Evans
Otakar Kraus

|Rudolf Kempe
Royal Opera House orchestra & chorus

|CD: Royal Opera House Heritage
Cat: ROHS 005

|Inge Borkh
Marianne Schech
Jean Madeira
{{Nowrap|Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau}}
Fritz Uhl

|Karl Böhm
Staatskapelle Dresden
Dresden State Opera House chorus

|CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 445329

|Astrid Varnay
Hildegard Hillebrecht
Martha Mödl
Eberhard Wächter
James King

|Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus

|CD: Orfeo
Cat: C298922I

|Birgit Nilsson
Leonie Rysanek
Regina Resnik
Eberhard Wächter
Wolfgang Windgassen

|Karl Böhm
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus

|CD: Orfeo
Cat: C886142I

|Birgit Nilsson
Marie Collier
Regina Resnik
Tom Krause
Gerhard Stolze

|Georg Solti
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus

|CD: Decca Records
Cat: 830302

|Birgit Nilsson
Leonie Rysanek
Mignon Dunn
Donald McIntyre
Robert Nagy

|James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus{{IMDb title|qid=Q123537609|title=Elektra|description=(1981)}}

|DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 073 4111

|Leonie Rysanek
Catarina Ligendza
Astrid Varnay
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Hans Beirer

|Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus{{IMDb title|qid=Q123537607|title=Elektra|description=(1981)}}

|DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 073 4095

|Hildegard Behrens
Nadine Secunde
Christa Ludwig
Jorma Hynninen
Ragnar Ulfung

|Seiji Ozawa
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Festival chorus

|CD: Decca
Cat: 470583

|Éva Marton
Cheryl Studer
Brigitte Fassbaender
Franz Grundheber
James King

|Claudio Abbado
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus

|DVD: ArtHaus Musik
Cat: 100048{{cite web

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|location=Germany

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|Gwyneth Jones
Anne Evans
Leonie Rysanek
Wolfgang Schöne
Ronald Hamilton

|Jeffrey Tate
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Grand Théâtre de Genève chorus
(recorded on 10 March)

|CD: Claves
Cat: 50-2514/15

|Éva Marton
Cheryl Studer
Marjana Lipovšek
Bernd Weikl
Hermann Winkler

|Wolfgang Sawallisch
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & chorus

|CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 9190

|Hildegard Behrens
Deborah Voigt
Brigitte Fassbaender
Donald McIntyre
James King

|James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
(telecast of 22 January)[http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=315150&limit=5000&xBranch=ALL&xsdate=&xedate=&theterm=behrens%20elektra&x=0&xhomepath=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/&xhome=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/bibpro.htm Telecast of 22 January 1994] at the MetOpera Database

|DVD: The Met Opera
Cat: 811357013274Recording details are from the 2010 Met DVD of the 22 January 1994 telecast, from the DVD collection "James Levine Celebrating 40 Years at the Met"

|Deborah Polaski
Alessandra Marc
Waltraud Meier
Falk Struckmann
Johan Botha

|Daniel Barenboim
Berlin State Opera orchestra & chorus

|CD: TeldecElektra, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, recorded live in February 1995, {{OCLC|35682115}}.
Cat: 99175

|Hildegard Behrens
Luana DeVol
Leonie Rysanek
Wolfgang Schöne
Daniel Galvez-Vallejo

|Friedemann Layer
Opéra national de Montpellier orchestra & chorus

|CD: Actes SudElektra, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, recorded live 3 August 1995, {{OCLC|49863795}}.
Cat: AT 34109

|Alessandra Marc
Deborah Voigt
Hanna Schwarz
Samuel Ramey
Siegfried Jerusalem

|Giuseppe Sinopoli
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus

|CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 453429

|Deborah Polaski
Anne Schwanewilms
Felicity Palmer
Franz Grundheber
Graham Clark

|Semyon Bychkov
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne & chorus

|CD: Profil Medien
Cat: PH 05022

|Eva Johansson
Melanie Diener
Marjana Lipovšek
Alfred Muff
Rudolf Schasching

|Christoph von Dohnányi
Zürich Opera House orchestra & chorus

|DVD: TDK
Cat: DVWW-OPELEK

|Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet
Angela Denoke
Felicity Palmer
Matthias Goerne
Ian Storey

|Valery Gergiev
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: LSO LiveLondon Symphony, 2010, {{OCLC|798251405}}.

|Iréne Theorin
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Waltraud Meier
René Pape
Robert Gambill

|Daniele Gatti
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
(Stage director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff; recorded at Salzburg Festival)

|Blu-ray/DVD: ArtHaus MusikSalzburg, 2010: Blu-ray {{OCLC|900083419}}; DVD {{OCLC|721878782}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=13295|title=Review - Richard Strauss Elektra DVD|first=Robert|last=Levine|publisher=www.classicstoday.com|access-date=16 October 2011}}

|Ingela Brimberg
Susanna Levonen
Ingrid Tobiasson
Thomas Lander
Magnus Kyhle

|Rumon Gamba
NorrlandsOperan orchestra & chorus
(recorded on 19 & 21 August)

|DVD: Unitel Classica
Cat: 731808Hall, George. Review of Elektra, Strauss. Opera, Vol 67 No 4, April 2016, p514-5.

|Nina Stemme
Adrianne Pieczonka
Waltraud Meier
Eric Owens
Burkhard Ulrich

|Esa-Pekka Salonen
Metropolitan Opera orchestra & chorus
(Production: Patrice Chéreau; recorded live on 30 April)

|HD video: Met Opera on Demand[https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=811357018477 "Elektra" (30 April 2016)], Met Opera on Demand; [http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356455 "CID:356455"], Met Opera Archive.