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 ...

Ancient Greek dramatist Euripides’ play “Iphigenia in Aulis” could seem remote. What have we in common with a father who sacrifices his daughter to the gods in exchange for better weather that will ...

Washington Ensemble Theatre’s studied, stilted and buff “Iphigenia at Aulis” brings to mind an adage: Beware of Greeks bearing Japanese theater techniques. Japanese stage artists have indeed ...

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Would you kill your own daughter as a sacrifice to the gods? Of course not. Civilization has evolved from the fifth century before Christ — an Athenian era when those famous experiments in democracy ...

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 ...

Euripides has a God problem, too. His plays are about the gravest failings of humans but the humans are constantly being manipulated by immortals. The story of Iphigenia in Aulis, his final work, from ...

Iphigenia at Aulis These are jittery times for the Greeks in Katie Mitchell's tremendous production of "Iphigenia at Aulis," which cracks open classical tragedy in much the same way that her wondrous ...