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Medea is merciless and vengeful, with a heart full of betrayal towards others and herself. She is the femme fatale of Corinth, her story ending with a bang and a chariot that carries her away into ...
Medea, though, ends her play not beaten down but darkly triumphant. In the final scene of Euripides' tragedy, she turns up to taunt her defeated husband from a winged chariot suspended above the ...
Classical Theatre’s season opener, Medea, has all the talent, tools and twists to make Euripides’ classical play something remarkable. There’s the crisp 95-minute runtime, ...
A decade ago Samuel (Adagio for Strings) Barber wrote a piece of music for Dancer Martha Graham called Cave of the Heart. It dealt with a Medea-like woman whose consuming love turned to hate and ...
Medea, the Musical will be performed on Saturday, January 13 at 9:30 PM, Sunday, January 14 and Monday, January 15, both at 7:00 PM, at The Green Room 42 (570 Tenth Avenue at 42nd Street, on the ...
Cherubini’s Medea, in this new production by David McVicar for the Met Opera, felt both timeless and utterly modern, set in a Regency era meets mythic era covered in tarnished golds and coppery ...
Great Performances at the Met raises the curtain on Medea with opera star Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role as the mythic sorceress who stops at nothing in her quest for vengeance. This ...
But Okonedo’s Medea is more wary, rational, cautious than the passionate creature of Jason’s imagination. As Callas knew, the question for every Medea is motive. Okonedo’s decision to kill comes as ...