San Francisco Opera's explosive, over-the- top "Elektra," a revival of Keith Warner's 2017 production, features a fine cast and a massive orchestra of 95 players, the largest ever in the house to date ...

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 ...

Complete Information About Strauss's Elektra in Dallas at The Dallas Opera (May 1 – May 31, 2026). Strauss's Elektra, originally recorded live at the Winspear Opera House in February 2024, follows ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...