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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 ...

What do you do when reviving an opera that has already had two different first halves written for it before? Create yet another one, of course. Iván Fischer’s revival of Richard Strauss’s ...

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 ...

She regularly plans student trips to numerous Greek-related performances, from Strauss' opera Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera, to Martha Graham's Greek-inspired dances at the NY City Center and ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened its season Monday with the ... 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 ...

The last part of the book moves from analysis to criticism, with a review by John Williamson of the opera's critical reception and an interpretative essay by Robin Holloway. The book also contains a ...

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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 ...

Toscanini refused to conduct at Bayreuth; Strauss accepted. True, he resigned his official post in 1935 and spoke out against the regime when he insisted on working with the Jewish librettist Stefan ...