Gereben, Janos
Oakland Post
03-25-2001
Views, Reviews, Previews: The Struggle With Aeschylus Contemporary Players'
30th Season

While cringing through the Berkeley Rep's premiere of Part II of the
"Oresteia" this week, I kept thinking of the Strauss "Electra" - a rather
obvious thing to do as "The Libation Bearers" covers exactly the same
segment of the story, Orestes' revenge for the murder of Agamemnon.
(Although the opera spends much more time on the humiliation and prominence
of Electra than the play, and the original story - unlike the opera -
segues into "The Eumenides," as the furies descend ...

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