The opera's libretto is based on a play by Racine, which in turn comes from the ancient Greek story of Iphigenia, the young woman whose father, King Agamemnon, was ordered to sacrifice her to earn ...

If the word “sacrifice” conjures up thoughts of an ancient polytheistic society, you would not be totally off the mark. “Iphigenia 2.0,” which is closing next weekend at Next Theatre in ...

(Iphigenia)” free, we’re also left with a myth unbound, its energy dissipated, its pages all flying around, its story stuck on the shores. And that doesn’t seem like too fair a sacrifice ...

It will be a big season for soprano Nuccia Focile, who sings leading roles in both the “Iphigenia” and the “Pagliacci.” The season, Seattle Opera’s 44th, also will bring back such ...

Coster’s adaptation, in turn, fed inspiration to the painter Jan Steen, whose 1671 canvas “The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” contained within it a sardonic critique of the religious and political ...

As jarring as these additions are, they’re not unforgivable until they intrude upon the climactic moment: Iphigenia’s sacrifice. After a moving declaration of Iphigenia’s resolve ...

This quadrilogy cements that reputation. One of the most famous mythological stories, the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father, is refracted into four shards by four excellent writers, each of ...

What she demands as recompense is devastating: the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon’s daughter by Clytemnestra. A conflict between personal attachment and political responsibility is thus ...

The myth of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the onset of the Trojan War has a terrific resonance for our times, as it depicts a country going to war under morally questionable ...