The Royal Opera House’s new production of Elektra could do with an extra pinch of Saltburn-esque depravity. German auteur Christof Loy’s new production doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead it ...

The time taken by a slow sunset. This is Hofmannsthal's stage direction for the performance of Elektra, a one-act tragedy of unimaginable darkness and violence. The same term is often applied to the ...

Nina Stemme as Elektra and Sara Jakabiuk in an impressive Royal Opera debut as her sister Chrysothemis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chilling: Nina Stemme as Elektra with Karita Mattila as Klytämnestra - Alastair Muir In Christof Loy’s new production of Strauss’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss' "Elektra" opens at McCaw Hall Saturday night with American soprano Janice Baird making her Seattle Opera debut in the title role. In the latest Seattle Opera magazine, Paul Schiavo ...