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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A unit of tough guys supports upper-brass Agamemnon (a properly somber Aaron Todd Douglas), who must sacrifice daughter Iphigenia (the appealing Rebecca Buller) to keep the peace. To lure her to ...

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 ...