Electra, also spelt Elektra (/əˈlɛktrə/; Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, romanized: Ēléktrā, lit. 'amber'; [ɛː.lék.traː]), is one of the most popular mythological...
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mythology. Electra or Elektra may also refer to: Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo Electra (Oceanid)...
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Electra, also Elektra or The Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities...
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The Buick Electra is a full-size luxury car manufactured and marketed by Buick from 1959 to 1990, over six generations. Introduced as the replacement...
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Mourning Becomes Electra is an opera in 3 acts by composer Marvin David Levy. The work uses an English language libretto by Henry W. Butler after the...
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Levin. While based on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy Electra, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist in style. Hofmannsthal's and...
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Deidre Hall (category American soap opera actresses)
Cole & Heidi Dorrington. In 1976, she portrayed the superheroine Electra Woman in Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, a Sid and Marty Krofft live action children's...
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Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October...
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Idomeneo (redirect from Idomeneo (opera))
enemies. Trojans and Cretans together welcome the return of peace, but Electra, daughter of the Greek King Agamemnon, is jealous of Ilia and does not...
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plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the tale of Orestes and Electra do not include her as a character. This is consistent with the theory that...
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premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra. However, the company would not premiere any new operas for decades afterwards, until 1991's The Ghosts...
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Fiona Shaw (category Irish opera directors)
the 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for roles in the plays Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Szechwan (1990), and Machinal (1994)...
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sedan above the Special but below the Electra during the 1960s then remained in its market position when the Electra was replaced with the Park Avenue. The...
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Kelly Monaco (category American soap opera actresses)
playing the role of Susan on the show, she was also Carmen Electra's body double at times, as Electra could not swim. Monaco also had minor roles in the late...
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Grayson McCouch (category American male soap opera actors)
Visit, Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Inherit the Wind and The Moon Stone. While in London, he performed in Electra at the Almeida Theater...
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for killing Agamemnon. Upon arriving, Orestes reunites with his sister Electra at Agamemnon's grave, while she was there bringing libations to Agamemnon...
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role is the largest in any surviving Greek tragedy. In Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra...
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Marin Hinkle (category American soap opera actresses)
Chrysothemis in Electra from December 3, 1998, to March 21, 1999, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Hinkle started her TV career on the soap opera Another World...
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and chamber ensemble. Mozart's opera Idomeneo features Electra as a major character. Elektra (opera) is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, first performed...
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Électre (Electra) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 2 July...
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Studio 54 (redirect from Gallo Opera House)
1927: Thirteen operas presented by the San Carlo Company 1927: Electra 1927: Juno and the Paycock 1928: A Tailor-Made Man 1930: Electra 1931: Young Sinners...
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complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra airplane, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared near Howland...
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foot of Mount Ida in the Troad. Dardanus, a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, was a significant figure in Greek mythology. He was the brother of Iasion...
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[oréstɛːs]) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths...
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(1979) and Electra (1998). She has also received four Tony Award nominations for her work on Broadway; for Piaf (1981), Loot (1986), Electra (1999), and...
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X, or the title song "Valley of the Dolls", a song from the 2012 album Electra Heart by Marina and the Diamonds "Valley of the Dolls", a song from the...
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (category German opera composers)
music, 1784 Electra, opera, Swedish libretto by Adolf Fredrik Ristell after Nicolas François Guillard, 1787 Alcides' inträde i världen, Opera in one act...
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deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men. In Euripides' play Electra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and...
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Yasmine Bleeth (category American soap opera actresses)
from iconic cast members Pamela Anderson, David Hasselhoff and Carmen Electra, to Aquaman Jason Momoa, RHOBH's Lisa Rinna, and Sofía Vergara". South...
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Beggar's Opera and Peer Gynt among others. On stage roles included Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange, Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt, Orestes in Electra at theatres...
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