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Prelude: "A woman's work is never done"
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Prelude: "Point taken"
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Prelude: Pause from work.
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Prelude: Another servant cum handywoman.
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The 'Overseer' oversees.
Sung by MIRIAM MURPHY
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Prelude: A servant defends Elektra's views.
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Elektra's sole supporter.
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Trying some DIY repairs.
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Another servant holds forth on Elektra's bizarre behaviour.
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Descending into the servant's quarters.
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Elektra (sung by SUSAN BULLOCK)
addresses the spirit of Agamemnon.
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Elektra with the bust of her murdered father.
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Elektra with the bust of her murdered father.
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Elektra sings of her forthcoming retribution.
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Elektra imagining the eventual dance of victory.
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Chrysothemis (sung by ANNE SCHWANEWILMS)
arrives to warn Elektra of their mother's intentions.
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Chrysothemis describes Klytamnestra's decision to confine Elektra.
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The sisters ponder their predicament.
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Chrysothemis bewails Elektra's intransigence.
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Iconographic representation of the decadence in the palace.
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The Overseer throws her weight around.
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Klytämnestra (sung by JANE HENSCHEL)
appears with her Confidante.
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Decadence reigns.
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Confidante with a representation of the reigning decadence.
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Elektra with a bourgeois layabout.
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Klytämnestra seeks comfort from an unsympathetic daughter.
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Klytämnestra becomes agitated.
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Confidante offers to give Klytämnestra a pick-me-up shot.
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Having discarded her wig and dismissed her Confidante, Klytämnestra prepares to talk to Elektra.
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Klytämnestra tries to make it up with Elektra - not very successfully!
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Klytämnestra decides to mislead Elektra.
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Elektra with the image of of the missing Orest.
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Elektra promises Klytämnestra that blood will flow.
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Chrysothemis arrives with the news of the arrival of strangers.
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Chrysothemis announces that the strangers brought the news of Orest's death.
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If true, Elektra realises that she and Chrysothemis must now avenge their father's murder.
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Elektra tries to persuade Chrysothemis.
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Elektra promises Chrysothemis to be her slave so long as she will help.
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Chrysothemis vehemently declines to help.
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A man enters the courtyard - somewhat unceremoniously....
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....and descends to where Elektra has recovered the axe to be used for her revenge.
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The newly arrived stranger enquires to whom he is talking.
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Elektra says who she is.
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The stranger maintains his incognito as he cannot
believe the wild woman before him is his sister.
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Orest is recognised.
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Elektra exults.
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Elektra fondles the axe that Klytämnestra used to murder Agamemnon
and that Orest should have used to kill Klytämnestra.
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Elektra simulates the death of Klytämnestra
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Chrysothemis and servants arrive on hearing the disturbance within the palace.
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Elektra prevents them from entering the palace.
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Aegisth (sung by Frank van Aken)
arrives from a night on the town.
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Elektra ensnares Aegisth with the lamp,
showing him the way to the palace.
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Elektra tells Aegisth the strangers are in the palace.
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Aegisth reappears calling for help having been attacked.
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The walls of the palace collapse revealing the body of Klytamnestra with Chrysothemis
somewhat deranged by the turn of events having donned a bridal dress.
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Chrysothemis exults.
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Chrysothemis straddles the body of Aegisth.
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Chrysothemis exults
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The Götterdämmerung-like ending.
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