Elektra: San Francisco Opera

Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss’ expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire.

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Composer

Richard Strauss

Libretto

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Dates

Jun 7–27, 2026

Run Time

1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission

Language

German with English supertitles

In a brutal world where revenge is enacted with the axe, Klytämnestra has murdered her husband Agamemnon. Their daughter Elektra is consumed by her grief and is fixated on vengeance against her mother. Justice must be served.