Russian soprano Elena Pankratova makes her San Francisco Opera debut in "Elektra," one of the most demanding roles in opera.

Strauss's Elektra, originally recorded live at the Winspear Opera House in February 2024, follows Elektra as she plots revenge against her mother for her father's murder, culminating in a violent ...

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, ...

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 ...

The centuries roll by, and human nature doesn’t change all that much, and so we keep telling ourselves the same stories over and over in different guises — tales of love and betrayal, of heroic deeds ...

San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' 1909 masterwork Elektra from June 7–27. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in this tense, one-act ...

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.

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 ...