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.

If you take your seat early at the opera, normally there’s little else to do but thumb the program booklet or check out the sartorial choices of your fellow audience members. At Saturday evening’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

Auckland audiences have had a good dose of troubled, romantic music recently with performances of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 and his song Cycle “Das Lied Von der Erde”. This Friday they will they will ...

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere ...