Mommy Dearest
The world of opera is filled with many larger than life characters. In honor of Mother's Day, and looking for a way to endure that long Mother's Day brunch, we thought we would take a look at some of the less than ideal mothers that have graced the opera stage. Because after all we love our mom, really, and we're sure glad she isn't... - Azucena, perhaps the most dastardly of all operatic mothers, who burns her baby before Il Trovatore even begins. - Herodias who gives her daughter Salome some "questionable" advice. - Step-grandmother Kostelnitchka who drowns Jenufa 's baby at the end of the opera. - Margaret Garner , who cuts the throats of her children although she did it to save them from slavery so there is room for debate on this one. - Medea / Medee who kills her two children however you want to spell it. - Klytaemnestra in Elektra murders her husband and hides from her children. - Madame de la Haltière the evil stepmother in Cendrillon. - Gertru...