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San Francisco Opera's explosive, over-the- top "Elektra," a revival of Keith Warner's 2017 production, features a fine cast ...

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 ...

San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' 1909 masterwork Elektra from June 7–27. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in this tense, one-act ...

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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to introduce to you the unforgettable talent of Richard Strauss, a virtuoso German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. His endless imagination and ...

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 ...

It’s a horror-filled time in the nation’s movie theaters. Rather than the typical summertime superhero fare, it’s Obsession and Backrooms, horror films made by young directors who came from TikTok and ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Nina Stemme made her role debut as Elektra last year at the Vienna State Opera. She made her Met debut in 2000 as Senta in Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer and returned in 2010 as the title character ...