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 ...

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.

The Met's new production of Richard Strauss's ELEKTRA is something to behold, with Vincent Huguet recreating the original by the late Patrice Chereau from France's Aix-en-Provence Festival and ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere ...

Virginia Opera took a bold step this weekend in presenting Richard Strauss’ “Elektra.” This demanding opera fuses music and drama into one intense act lasting about 90 minutes. It’s a thrilling, ...

It’s a drab, showery September morning in downtown Detroit, but David DiChiera is exuding nothing but sunshine from his office in the Detroit Opera House. And why not? DiChiera, founder and artistic ...

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 ...