The Royal Opera House’s new production of Elektra could do with an extra pinch of Saltburn-esque depravity. German auteur Christof Loy’s new production doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead it ...

Nina Stemme as Elektra and Sara Jakabiuk in an impressive Royal Opera debut as her sister Chrysothemis ...

Delayed four years due to Covid, The Royal Opera’s new Elektra is orchestrally outstanding, but vocally under par What did transpire is that four years is a long time in opera. Nina Stemme is a ...

It's got the blood-soaked drama of a movie thriller: murders and mental instability, paranoia and pathological obsessions, a brother thought dead who turns up alive. The dramatis personae are drawn ...

The last hurrah of a murderous family spanning three generations, the vengeful finale of the ancient Greek story of Agamemnon is portrayed in Richard Strauss' 1909 opera "Elektra," with a libretto by ...

San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season will continue with a summer lineup featuring productions, concerts, and special events across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Richard Strauss and Hugo von ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chilling: Nina Stemme as Elektra with Karita Mattila as Klytämnestra - Alastair Muir In Christof Loy’s new production of Strauss’s ...

Grip-the-armrest drama. Heroic singing. And every possible nuance from a massive orchestra. That was opening night of the Dallas Opera's Elektra Friday, at the Winspear Opera House. The company has ...

With a psychologically disturbed heroine and a score featuring Strauss’ most harmonically advanced music, Elektra lends itself to productions that take an anachronistic approach to its Mycenaean ...