The Metropolitan Opera High Definition broadcast of the Richard Strauss opera, “Elektra,” will be held at the Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, on Saturday, April 30, beginning at 11 a.m.

Richard Strauss’ blazing tragedy stars Nina Stemme as the vengeful princess Elektra. “Elektra,” Richard Strauss's blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hell-bent on revenge, comes to ...

THERE’S NO OPERATIC TOUR DE FORCE TO SURPASS ELEKTRA, WITH A TITLE ROLE THAT DEMANDS A TRULY GREAT SINGING ACTRESS. It’s a stunning vocal marathon, with riveting intensity. You owe it to yourself to ...

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, ...

OPERA REVIEW: ‘Elektra’ 3-1/2 stars; through Oct. 30 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive; $32-$239; 312-332-2244, ext. 5600; lyricopera.org. Opening nights at Lyric Opera are more typically ...

Which they mostly did, even if the total revelation lay elsewhere. Nelsons hits hard and loud from the start, with stunning emphasis on burrowing bass lines – Elektra’s search for the axe which felled ...

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 ...

Elektra (Christine Goerke, right) weeps, but her mother Klytämnestra (Michaela Schuster) has heard it all before. Karen Almond / Met Opera A question you get asked a lot when you write about opera is ...