Revenge is a dish best tasted cold, or so the saying goes. But Richard Strauss' 1909 "Elektra," a tale of intergenerational violence and bloody revenge, is anything but chilly - especially in San ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. S.F. Opera will revive Keith Warner's staging of Strauss' "Elektra" from June 7-27. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) Russian ...
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 ...
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On my walk to the Kennedy Center for Washington National Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s “Elektra,” I encountered skeletons and zombies, a roving crew of drag “Karens” and what I must ...
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 ...
Conductor Alexander Prior, writing about Edmonton Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra, which opened at the Jubilee on Saturday, commented, “Tonight’s Alberta premiere is an epic ...
Maybe even more than we love stories about people with problems much bigger than our own, we love stories about dysfunctional families. When Richard Strauss wrote his 1909 one-act opera, Elektra, he ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elena Pankratova as Elektra and Elza van den Heever as Chrysothemis in Strauss' "Elektra." (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) ...