1 October 2013. Elektra at the ROH.

Excellent music and singing (especially Christine Goerke who played Elektra). However, there is very little action in the 110 minutes without interval. Essentially, the story is that Elektra is seeking revenge on her mother, Klytamnestra and her mother’s paramour, Aegisth for their killing of Agamemnon, Elektra’s father. Her sister, Chrysothemis, does not have the resolve and rage possessed by Elektra but nothing much happens until their brother, Orest, arrives, having been mis-reported as recently dead much to the delight of his mother and particularly Aegisth. Orest goes on to kill the two of them, at which point Elektra dies and the curtain falls.