This operatic production leans into several grand traditions: ancient Greek drama, Korean pansori (in which a singer is accompanied by percussion), blues and jazz. It adds occasional pop-concert optics and the effect, which might easily have been a hodgepodge, is scintillating from start to finish.
Director Ong Keng Sen transposes Euripides’ tragedy so artfully that the production is an exemplar of how any culture can own the ancient Greek myths.
