Oresteia

Trilogy of tragic Greek plays by Aeschylus – Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Eumenides – which won first prize at the festival of Dionysus in Athens in 458 BC. Their subject is the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and the consequent vengeance of their son Orestes and daughter Electra.

Oresteia

Trilogy of short operas by Sergey Ivanovich Taneiev (libretto by A A Venkstern, after Aeschylus). Scenes depict the Greek myths Agamemnon, Choephorae/The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides/The Furies. Oresteia was first produced in St Petersburg on 29 October 1895.