Elektra
Lighting Design
Seattle Opera, October 2008
Music by Richard Strauss, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Stage Direction by Chris Alexander
Set Design by Wolfram Skalicki
Costume Design by Melanie Taylor Burgess
Bernard Jacobson of the Seattle Times on the lighting: “Marcus Doshi’s lighting design, effective throughout, offered a truly gooseflesh thrill when Orest’s longed-for arrival was preceded by a looming shadow, succeeded in turn by a sudden liberating illumination of the whole stage.”