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.

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Auckland audiences have had a good dose of troubled, romantic music recently with performances of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 and his song Cycle “Das Lied Von der Erde”. This Friday they will they will ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Having been privileged to witness Evelyn Herlitzius’s mesmerizing interpretation of Strauss’s Elektra at the Aix Festival this summer, I was disappointed that she hadn’t been engaged for these ...