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.

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 ...

In Christof Loy’s new production of Strauss’s Elektra, the ancient royal palace at Mycenae, home of the murdered Agamemnon, has become a drab grey-walled Secession mansion in turn-of-the-last-century ...

Christine Goerke sings her first Elektra, an intense and still-startling work that unites the commanding impact of Greek tragedy with the unsettling insights of early-20th-century Freudian psychology.

If it had been merely bloodcurdling, Seattle Opera’s “Elektra,” which opened at McCaw Hall on Saturday night, would be a less astounding achievement. What this stunning production manages to do, ...

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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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens made her 2015 San Francisco Opera debut as ...

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 ...