SF Opera's 'Elektra' is a shocking, brilliant horror show of an opera

San Francisco Opera's revival of Strauss' "Elektra" is a devastating triumph, powered by Eun Sun Kim, Elena Pankratova and a ...
KQED

There Will Be Blood: ‘Elektra’ Unfolds Like a Horror Movie at SF Opera

Then there’s Elektra, a 117-year old opera currently running the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, a Richard Strauss ...

She laughed off a challenging opera role. Now she's playing it for the 17th time in San Francisco

Russian soprano Elena Pankratova makes her San Francisco Opera debut in "Elektra," one of the most demanding roles in opera.
The Forward

Why The Nazis Banned This Strauss Opera — Even Though He Collaborated

The composer Richard Strauss has a complicated legacy. Beginning in 1933, Strauss served as the President of the Reichsmusikkammer, the Nazi Reich’s Chamber of Music, a damning collaboration with the ...
The Michigan Daily

Strauss opera brings myth and music to Hill

The University Musical Society will welcome Maestro Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne to the Hill Auditorium on Thursday. Under Bychkov’s direction, the orchestra and performers ...