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 ...

Brian Staufenbiel is sitting in a rehearsal room at Minnesota Opera's North Loop base, grinning with boyish enthusiasm at the production paraphernalia around him. Clunking bits of scenery loom over ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Richard Strauss' 'Elektra,' with soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The same production is being presented by the Dallas Opera, but with Marjorie Owens as ...

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 ...

A dress rehearsal of Richard Strauss' opera 'Elektra' was held in Salzburg on August 4, 2010. 'Elektra' is conducted by Daniele Gatti, directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff, and designed by Raimund Bauer. The ...

MONTREAL — Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” isn’t a “nice” opera, nor is it pretty, yet it was particularly powerful and beautiful, riveting even, at Saturday’s opening night performance at the Opéra de ...