Italian composer Domenico Alaleona's only opera, premiering in 1920, was entitled "Mirra". The libretto drew on the legend of Myrrha while the music was inspired by Claude Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" (1902) as well as Richard Strauss' "Elektra" (1909). Suffering from being monotonic, the final showdown between father and daughter, the critics commented, was the only part really making an impact. "Mirra" remains Alaleona's most ambitious composition and though the music tended to be "eclectic and uneven", it showed "technical enterprise".