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Opera

A sensational week for opera: sensationally good and sensationally bad

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

Elektra

Royal Opera House, in rep until 12 October

Fidelio

English National Opera, in rep until 17 October

It’s been a sensational week for opera in London, with a sensationally good performance of Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal Opera, and a sensationally terrible production of Fidelio at English National Opera. Charles Edwards’s production of Elektra is revived for the second time, but this is quite the finest account of it, thanks above all to the conducting of Andris Nelsons and the assumption of the title role by Christine Goerke.

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