"What is gonna happen, when we can’t take it anymore?" Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don ...

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Most theaters would consider it a win to have just one moment in a show that's so viscerally arresting, it causes many to put hands over hearts and gasp. "Iphigenia at Aulis," the Euripidean tragedy ...

The opera's libretto is based on a play by Racine, which in turn comes from the ancient Greek story of Iphigenia, the young woman whose father, King Agamemnon, was ordered to sacrifice her to earn ...

The straightforward production of “Iphigenia in Aulis” that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled “Clytemnestra,” so enlivening is ...

A military captain prepares to set sail for combat, but first, he must sacrifice his daughter to prove the justness of war to his soldiers. If the word “sacrifice” conjures up thoughts of an ancient ...

There's a key metaphor nestled near the midpoint of ...(Iphigenia), the audacious, iconoclastic new opera by Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding. A revisionary take on a canonical tale — mainly ...

Euripides was never known for his sex jokes. The sober-minded tragedian of ancient Greece is typically associated with his realistic treatment of myth and his psychologically complex heroines. None of ...

The only way she can be appeased is if King Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to make amends.” “Our Iphigenia has at its core a sense of autonomy – in this adventure of life, you have ...

War is stupid and wasteful. That's the gist of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, and 25-odd centuries haven't dulled its message. Although it occasionally veers into overstatement, this production makes ...