
Elektra
June 7–27, 2026
By Richard Strauss
Composer
Richard Strauss
Libretto
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Dates
Jun 7–27, 2026
Price
Starting at $29
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.
San Francisco Opera’s production, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “extraordinary” and “stunning,” brings us to a modern-day museum and an exhibit on Elektra. A young woman grappling with her own life is pulled into the ancient narrative in this ingenious production by Keith Warner—a taut psychological thriller in which the past and the present become one.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Strauss’ expressionist masterpiece, replete with one of the largest orchestras in the repertoire. The intense emotions of this Greek tragedy are rendered on a vast scale by Strauss’ massive soundscape and a score that winds up the dramatic tension with an intensity that can only lead to one horrific outcome.
June 14, 2026. Immediately following the matinee, join us for a post-performance talkback with Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
OperaVision, HD video projection screens featured in the Balcony level for the first three performances.
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SUN, JUN 7, 2026
2:00 PM
THU, JUN 11, 2026
7:30 PM
SUN, JUN 14, 2026
2:00 PM
FRI, JUN 19, 2026
7:30 PM
TUE, JUN 23, 2026
7:30 PM
SAT, JUN 27, 2026
7:30 PM
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* San Francisco Opera Debut
San Francisco Opera production, originally created by San Francisco Opera, Prague National Theatre, and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Elektra is made possible, in part, by Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran, Bernard & Barbro Osher, Marieke & Jeff Rothschild, and Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.
* Illustration by Brian Stauffer