Description: Approaching Dobson’s Aegisthus sparks a rush of anticipation. A transparent acrylic cylinder with hundreds of matches stuck perfectly into as many holes — it’s kind of impossible not to ...

As the opera opens, Elektra's father, King Agamemnon, is already dead, and the score begins with a powerful four-note theme to which Elektra later sings his name. Agamemnon was hacked to death with an ...

Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces that invaded Troy, survived the 10 years of the Trojan War, only to come home and be murdered by his wife and her lover. An ironic death that begat a cycle of ...

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THEATRE, EMER O'KELLY FILTHY, dispossessed and wild-eyed, Electra prowls the shadows of her dead father's palace, fed on scraps and howling her longing for revenge. Yet she is descended from the gods, ...

The timing is surely not intentional. You can hardly imagine that the Dallas Opera’s first choice was to program Romeo and Juliet in late spring and to present, on Valentine’s Day, a chilling story of ...

When Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to the gods for victory in the Trojan War, his wife Clytemnestra is understandably unhappy. Aeschylus’s trilogy, adapted by Rory Mullarkey and brought ...