Elektra, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: Strauss's concentrated retelling of the dark story of Agamemnon's daughter Elektra, and her burning desire for revenge on her mother Klytemnestra -- who together with her lover Aegisth has colluded in Agamemnon's murder -- returns to the Covent Garden stage in director/designer Charles Edwards's striking production. Visually the result is memorable, the sense of deep emo…