If also hesitant, Hamlet-like, she is testing just how far she can go to prick her mother’s conscience yet stay alive. In a nearly two-hour sweep during which Elektra is almost always present onstage, Stemme revealed herself as grieving daughter, cajoling sister, unrelenting warrior in spirit. Strauss’ shocker has a Hitchcock-like intensity. Still watching and waiting, reduced to rags and robbed of her youth, yet fixated on her bloodthirsty goal, Elektra has lurked around the courtyard for years, eating with the dogs and enduring the palace workers’ ridicule.
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