Elektra New York Performances

Richard Strauss’s *Elektra* is a one-act psychological tragedy, drawn from Greek myth and shaped by Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s compressed, modern drama. It follows Elektra’s fierce fixation on avenging her father’s murder, with an orchestra that often carries the characters’ inner weather as much as the text does. In New York, the piece became a marker of early 20th‑century modernism; the Metropolitan Opera introduced it to the city in 1932. At David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic turns to the *Elektra Suite* under Manfred Honeck, with María Dueñas featured on the same program.