The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian Staufenbiel is sitting in a rehearsal room at Minnesota Opera's North Loop base, grinning with boyish enthusiasm at the production paraphernalia around him. Clunking bits of scenery loom over ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Richard Strauss' 'Elektra,' with soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The same production is being presented by the Dallas Opera, but with Marjorie Owens as ...

Obsession: The great Greek playwrights often used it as the driving force in their dramas. Their central characters are usually driven by some key goal from which they won’t be dissuaded. And few are ...

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 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 ...