Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...

Phaedra proves a number of things: that Jules Dassin knows how to direct a movie; that antique Greek tragedy can be done as modern cinema brilliantly and meaningfully; that Melina Mercouri is as ...

Peter Feno will portray Asterion the half-human, half-bull Minotaur in ‘Bulls: The Tragedy of Phaedra of Crete.’ He will also portray Phaedra’s stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra is a queen, but that ...