San Francisco Opera's explosive, over-the- top "Elektra," a revival of Keith Warner's 2017 production, features a fine cast ...

For opera lovers today, “Elektra” is a period piece – a Freudian obsession filtered through searing early-20th century music. For opera fans in 1909, it was a shocker. Based on a Greek tragedy, ...

Elektra, Richard Strauss’s blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hell-bent on revenge, comes to THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met. The opera, the final opera production by the ...

Thank you for signing up! The title role of Elektra is among opera’s most demanding. She’s onstage for nearly all of the work’s 100-minute running time plotting revenge for the murder of Agamemnon by ...

The centuries roll by, and human nature doesn’t change all that much, and so we keep telling ourselves the same stories over and over in different guises — tales of love and betrayal, of heroic deeds ...

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The Metropolitan Opera High Definition broadcast of the Richard Strauss opera, “Elektra,” will be held at the Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, on Saturday, April 30, beginning at 11 a.m.

Which they mostly did, even if the total revelation lay elsewhere. Nelsons hits hard and loud from the start, with stunning emphasis on burrowing bass lines – Elektra’s search for the axe which felled ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to introduce to you the unforgettable talent of Richard Strauss, a virtuoso German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. His endless imagination and ...

These two of the top masterpieces by Wagner's natural successor - "Richard the Third", as Strauss was dubbed, because there could be no second - both reminded us of what worked and what didn't when ...

Legendary director Patrice Chéreau's final work, an acclaimed staging of Richard Strauss's tragedy Elektra, comes to the Met April 14 with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading a cast headed by Nina Stemme in her ...

If you take your seat early at the opera, normally there’s little else to do but thumb the program booklet or check out the sartorial choices of your fellow audience members. At Saturday evening’s ...