6. See Elektra

A Patrice Chéreau production. Metropolitan Opera, opens April 1.

Strauss’s opera returns in a blaze of soprano firepower: Nina Stemme as Elektra and Lise Davidsen as her sister Chrysothemis. Those voices, in this score, are the operatic equivalent of a monster-truck rally: It’s hard to believe they can get so big, so daring, so exciting.