Elektra | Opera review

The highly commendable decision to present Strauss's staggering opera uncut couldn't avoid a few inequalitiesStrauss hated it when Elektra was given with cuts, probably because it brought home to him that the challenges posed by his most remarkable score were way beyond the capabilities of many of its performers. We are still used to ­hearing it with 20 minutes of music missing, so Valery Gergiev and the ­London ­Symphony Orchestra's decision to present it complete cannot be too highly ...

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