conductor of the Munich Opera, writing the libretto, Strauss had set about transferring the argument to the stage. What the audience saw last week was a far cry from either Salome or Elektra.

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DALLAS (KDAF) — “It’s riveting theater,” Jill Grove said in a new behind the scenes look at the Winspear Opera House “Elektra” opera. The whole premise behind “Elektra” is a ...

Christine Goerke sings her first Elektra at the Met in Patrice Chéreau ... Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Strauss’s shattering score, a tour de force for the singers and the orchestra ...

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Next up: his arrival at the Metropolitan Opera. By Joshua Barone ... Those operas have remained Strauss's most famous and his most often recorded. "Elektra" and "Capriccio" show the composer ...

Stundytė is a Lithuanian soprano, like another star at the festival, Asmik Grigorian. (The latter has an Armenian father.) ...

With reference points from Strauss, whose Elektra opera Andromeda describes as “the most brutal thing you’ve ever heard”, to ...

Elektra Women's Choir has announced that, effective immediately, it is formally rebranding to Elektra. Elektra is excited ...

Mantua's court hosts Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, the earliest opera still performed ... After composing Elektra, his most dissonant and modernist score for the stage, Strauss continues to work ...

A full synopsis of the work provides an insight into the psychological motivation of the drama and an impression of the musical shape and substance of the opera. More detailed analytical comment ...