“Elektra“ Streaming Trailer

The king of Mycenae finally returned home after a bloody war, only to be murdered by his wife and her lover. And witness to it all was his loving daughter Elektra. Now, consumed with thoughts of vengeance, she plots the downfall of a queen in Richard Strauss’s fiery one-act opera “Elektra,“ San Francisco Opera’s latest summer streaming special. A jarring modernist work based on Greek mythology, “Elektra“ captures the oppressive cruelty of a court run through bloodshed — and the madness it inspires in one of its princesses. The San Francisco Chronicle hails the opera as “a tour de force of musical bravura and theatrical inventiveness,” featuring conductor Henrik Nánási “in an unforgettable company debut.”