Patrice Chéreau

Review: ‘Elektra’ at the Met Opera With Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen

The title role of Elektra is among opera’s most demanding. She’s onstage for nearly all of the work’s 100-minute running time plotting revenge for the murder of Agamemnon by her adulterous mother Klytämnestra.

By Christopher Corwin

The Met’s Powerful ‘Elektra’ Could Turn Anyone Into an Opera Lover

The Metropolitan Opera's new 'Elektra' is a production to convert the most stubborn unbeliever to the cause of opera.

By James Jorden

At the Met, the Diva Is the Director

So in a practical sense whatever happened dramatically in this Puritani was driven by Damrau aggressive physicality, darting and swooping and twitching to express the heroine's incipient madness.

By James Jorden

A Tale of Utter Futility Can Be Magnificent

By James Jorden

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