Show LATEST MUSICAL SENSATION New York Feb o eb latest musical sensation tra an opera b by Richard Strauss Strau had It its first American production tonight at Lisa tho Manhattan Opera House Seats Scats at the Premier sold at fanc ROd and orchestra chair holders paid ten cents a minute for tim tho minutes o of Straws Strauss latest work which critics sa say outdoes Salomo In It morbid Imagery The ho story of oC Elektra tolls tells how the tho queen has murdered her husband King AgamemnOn with the help of her lover Her Elektra Insane with the tho thol l idea ea of avenging her Cathor persuades her brother Orestes to slay their mother and her hover loer All tile the murderous mania the ray ings o of the obsessed Elektra Hn s Its greatest expression in n the tho orchestra some Of tho effects being b by bythe the development o of new musical In Instruments Strauss sought to produce the sounds of oC creaky hinges equalling and grunt gruntIng grunting Ing of animals and other unusual sounds without number which the tho ac action action tion of the opera demands The KI was Mme Reache was 11 Du Duffault It One hundred and twelve pieces composed the orchestra |