THREE months after the world premiere of his “Elektra,” Richard Strauss reported to the librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, that a performance in Milan had been a “colossal success— biggest receipts of ...

At a rehearsal for the 1910 premiere of his opera "Elektra," Richard Strauss stopped the titanic duel between the soprano and the orchestra, one of the largest ever assembled at that time, by shouting ...

Ever since Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an inspired performance of Strauss’s “Salome” two seasons ago, local audiences have been waiting for the BSO to return to more opera in ...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, based on the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, describes the House of King Agamemnon at Mycenae as where “the stairs are slippery with blood”. The late Patrice Chereau’s ...

Despite the horrific drama and magnificent orchestral fabric that grab one’s attention in Richard Strauss’ “Elektra,” ultimately it’s the quality of the singing, and particularly of the title role, ...

OF all the dysfunctional families in Greek myth, there is none to touch the House of Atreus for serial domestic murders. The scene is set at the start of Charles Edwards’s riveting production of ...

The 1909 opera is adapted from librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play of the same name, which was in turn a free adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy. The freedom lies not so much in the plot, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hailed as "The First Freudian Opera", Elektra is a tale of murder, betrayal, ...