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 ...

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 ...

Witness the epic transformation of the Winspear Opera House as we load in Strauss’ ‘Elektra’ set in this mesmerizing time-lapse. Tormented by the death of her father at the hands of her mother, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than nine 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 ...

Some of that could be predicted with Franz Welser-Möst at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic. He’s not a man of temperament, and while Strauss’s orchestral colours all emerge hand in glove with ...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's ...