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Richard Strauss’ Elektra – June 7-9 In Richard Strauss’ masterpiece, inspired by the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, Elektra has just witnessed the murder of her father Agamemnon, the king ...

It made me wonder whether Tesori has spent a lot of time with Richard Strauss’s Elektra. S.H.: She also has a great physicality for Jess, a chest-up toughness and just enough swagger.

The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has ... professional adroitness and sophistication. Richard’s formal academic ...

Richard Strauss' "Elektra," April 30, encore performance May 4. Ballet: New York City Ballet: George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," Dec. 5 and Dec. 10; Bolshoi: "Lady of Camellias," Dec. 6 ...

It’s no small news then that Fish is reuniting with one of his Oklahoma! stars for another major revival. Patrick Vaill, who ...

Recent productions include Wagner’s Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Vienna State Opera. He works with the world’s leading orchestras and appears ...

Thibaudet was perhaps the living embodiment of Liszt had he been alive today, in an uncanny understanding of the composer ...

After the popularity of André Gretry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion ... After composing Elektra, his most dissonant and modernist score for the stage, Strauss continues to work with librettist Hugo ...

Shot over a twoyear period observing Abbado a Rossini Overture to ll Barbiere di Siviglia b Schubert Symphony no 2 BMajor D 125 c Arnold Schonberg Kammersinfonie no 1 EMajor op 9 Filmed in Venice ...

The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann cover the ...