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He hung elegant, transparent grayish fabric drapes on which modest scenic projections occasionally appeared along with supertitles.

The work, sung in English with Chinese supertitles, ran in Shanghai through Nov. 20.

The fundamental frustration of François Girard’s immaculately handsome production is the placement of the supertitles.

At Bayreuth, which lacks supertitles, it is likely that almost no one would have noticed had there not been a small flurry of coverage of the issue last summer.

A slight delay in the supertitles on Saturday had the audience best-guessing their German throughout the opening scene, in which all but one of Elektra’s maids hang around talking trash about their visibly traumatized mistress.