Experience Patrice Chéreau’s renowned staging of Elektra when it returns to the Met one week from today. Beginning April 1, Maestro Sir Donald Runnicles takes the podium to conduct one of opera’s most intense scores, starring sopranos Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen as the title Greek heroine and her sister, Chrysothemis. Strauss’s shattering modern masterpiece also features mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster as Klytämnestra, tenor Stefan Vinke as Aegisth, and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Orest. O

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