San Francisco Opera’s electrifying “Elektra”

The first collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal was an operatic remake of the poet’s drama, Elektra, derived from Sophocles’ tragedy of familial murder and revenge. The resulting lengthy – nearly two-hour –...

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Wit and Love at Marin Shakespeare

Love’s Labour’s Lost closes the summer festival  Some of my favorite lines in Shakespeare are from the winter section of “The Cuckoo and Owl,” the closing song from Love’s Labour’s Lost: “Then nightly...

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