Salomé (Opéra de Paris)

Overview

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod who is afraid of him. Obsessed by this enigmatic and virtuous man, Salome is ready to do anything to possess him, dead or alive. Drawing on Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play of the same name, in 1905 Richard Strauss produced the work that was to ensure his status as Wagner’s successor in the history of German opera. A dazzling hour and forty minutes, decadent in its very essence, which, for her debut at the Paris Opera, Lydia Steier treats as a dystopia in which amorality rules.

Directed by François-René Martin

Top cast

Elza van den Heever

Salomé

Karita Mattila

Herodias

Iain Paterson

Jochanaan

Tansel Akzeybek

Narraboth

John Daszak

Herodes

K

Katharina Magiera

Page of Herodias

M

Matthaus Schmidlechner

First Jew

É

Éric Huchet

Second Jew

M

Maciej Kwasnikowski

Third Jew

M

Mathias Vidal

Fourth Jew

S

Sava Vemic

Fifth Jew

L

Luke Stoker

First Nazarene

Y

Yiorgo Ioannou

Second Nazarene

D

Dominic Philip Barberi

First soldier

B

Bastian Thomas Kohl

Second soldier

A

Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

A Cappadocian

M

Marion Grange

A slave

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