Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elena Pankratova as Elektra and Elza van den Heever as Chrysothemis in Strauss' "Elektra." (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) ...

It's got the blood-soaked drama of a movie thriller: murders and mental instability, paranoia and pathological obsessions, a brother thought dead who turns up alive. The dramatis personae are drawn ...

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, ...

Revenge is a dish best tasted cold, or so the saying goes. But Richard Strauss' 1909 "Elektra," a tale of intergenerational violence and bloody revenge, is anything but chilly - especially in San ...