Using huge orchestral forces, Strauss takes the iconic Greek legend and ramps it up to fever pitch, giving audiences a 100-minute thrill ride that’s unparalleled in its intensity.

Elektra is poisoned,abused, having witnessed the murder of her father King Agamemnon when she was just a child. And the killers? Her very own mother, Queen Clytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus. Isolated and maltreated, Elektra now lives for just one thing; death for her mother at the hands of her brother Orestes. But when she's told that he's been killed, Elektra finally cracks - vowing to enact her own terrible revenge.

"There will be blood!" she screams;and so there is as Elektra hurtles to its cataclysmic conclusion.