Despite this minor setback, everything went rather smoothly. To begin with, the polar vortex we had last week prevented the company from staging a full dress rehearsal. And I was getting excited remembering Lyric’s production of the German composer’s Der Rosenkavalier two seasons ago starring Amanda Majeski.Įlektra, both the opera as written by Strauss and the production as performed at Lyric, are both flawed and neither seems to have found its footing, figuratively and literally. To sum up, I was fully prepared to love Richard Strauss’s operatic version. I’ve also seen a one-night performance of the complete Oresteia of Aeschylus and read both Sophocles’ and Euripedes’ versions of Elektra. The first show I ever reviewed in Chicago was The Hypocrites’ All Our Tragic at the Den Theatre, a marathon twelve-hour distillation of every surviving Greek tragedy.
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