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 ...

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 ...

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.

Richard Strauss's ELEKTRA is simply overwhelming--particularly when you have Nina Stemme and, especially, Lise Davidsen, as the title character and her sister Chrysothemis, ably abetted by Greer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...