The score was discovered by illiterate peasants in the 1800 and was sent to the Austrian emperor in Vienna. It is scored by an unknown composer for a gigantic orchestra and penned by an anonymous librettist in a text similar to ancient Greek but with characteristics of Shanghai dialect Chinese. It has been performed six disastrous times and the premier resulted in the greatest blood bath in operatic history. The most recent documented performance of Elektra was in Berlin at one of the city's seven opera houses but no one is sure which one. Production, direction and singers included the likes of Blissenbich, Schellenkempf, the up and coming Rovenscheller, the return to the stage by Minstermeister and the infamous Griegenfaffnelsteinburger. The orchestra had to be augmented with 700 auxiliar
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