Roles RoleĮlektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Harlow Robinson has noted that the opera avoids dramatic treatment of the murders of Agamemnon, Cassandra, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, depicting those events off-stage. Passages in the overture echo the UK's and other nations' national anthem, "God Save the Queen", whose melody lies in antiquity. This overture-not included in the printed score of this opera-constitutes a separate 18-minute-long symphonic poem based on themes from the trilogy. This passage, as well as other themes from the opera, figured into one of Taneyev's other works, namely, his orchestral overture entitled Oresteia (1889). The best-known excerpt from Oresteia is the entr'acte played before the second tableau of Part III, "The Temple of Apollo at Delphi". Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that soon after the premiere, the Mariinsky management made cuts to the opera, which angered Taneyev. The opera was premiered on October 29 1895 at the Mariinsky Theatre. Wenkstern from The Oresteia of Aeschylus. The Russian libretto was adapted by A. A. The composer titled this work, his only opera, a "musical trilogy". Oresteia ( Орестея in Cyrillic) is an opera in three parts, eight tableaux, with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887–1894.
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