Movies: Leonie Rysanek

Richard Strauss opera on a Oscar Wilde's biblical drama....

Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich....

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980...

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at ...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives fo...