In a brutal world where revenge is enacted with the axe, Klytämnestra has murdered her husband Agamemnon. Their daughter Elektra is consumed by her grief and is fixated on vengeance against her mother. Justice must be served.
San Francisco Opera's production, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "extraordinary" and "stunning," brings us to a modern-day museum and an exhibit on Elektra. A young woman grappling with her own life is pulled into the ancient narrative in this ingenious production by Keith Warner--a taut psychological thriller in which the past and the present become one.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss' expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire. The intense emotions of this Greek tragedy are rendered on a vast scale by Strauss' massive soundscape and a score that winds up the dramatic tension with an intensity that can only lead to one horrific outcome.
COMPOSER
Richard Strauss
LIBRETTO
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
RUN TIME
1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission
LANGUAGE
German with English supertitles
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San Francisco Opera's production, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "extraordinary" and "stunning," brings us to a modern-day museum and an exhibit on Elektra. A young woman grappling with her own life is pulled into the ancient narrative in this ingenious production by Keith Warner--a taut psychological thriller in which the past and the present become one.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss' expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire. The intense emotions of this Greek tragedy are rendered on a vast scale by Strauss' massive soundscape and a score that winds up the dramatic tension with an intensity that can only lead to one horrific outcome.
COMPOSER
Richard Strauss
LIBRETTO
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
RUN TIME
1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission
LANGUAGE
German with English supertitles
In a brutal world where revenge is enacted with the axe, Klytämnestra has murdered her husband Agamemnon. Their daughter Elektra is consumed by her grief and is fixated on vengeance against her mother. Justice must be served.
San Francisco Opera's production, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "extraordinary" and "stunning," brings us to a modern-day museum and an exhibit on Elektra. A young woman grappling with her own life is pulled into the ancient narrative in this ingenious production by Keith Warner--a taut psychological thriller in which the past and the present become one.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss' expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire. The intense emotions of this Greek tragedy are rendered on a vast scale by Strauss' massive soundscape and a score that winds up the dramatic tension with an intensity that can only lead to one horrific outcome.
COMPOSER
Richard Strauss
LIBRETTO
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
RUN TIME
1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission
LANGUAGE
German with English supertitles
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San Francisco Opera's production, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "extraordinary" and "stunning," brings us to a modern-day museum and an exhibit on Elektra. A young woman grappling with her own life is pulled into the ancient narrative in this ingenious production by Keith Warner--a taut psychological thriller in which the past and the present become one.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss' expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire. The intense emotions of this Greek tragedy are rendered on a vast scale by Strauss' massive soundscape and a score that winds up the dramatic tension with an intensity that can only lead to one horrific outcome.
COMPOSER
Richard Strauss
LIBRETTO
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
RUN TIME
1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission
LANGUAGE
German with English supertitles
show less
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