Strauss: Salome

Overview

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete

Top cast

Karita Mattila

Salome

I

Ildikó Komlósi

Herodias

J

Joseph Kaiser

Narraboth

K

Kim Begley

Herod

J

Juha Uusitalo

Jochanaan

L

Lucy Schaufer

The page

Keith Miller

First soldier

Richard Berstein

Second soldier

D

David Won

A Cappadocian

R

Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis

A slave

A

Allan Glassman

First Jew

M

Mark Schowalter

Second Jew

A

Adam Klein

Third Jew

John Easterlin

Fourth Jew

James Courtney

Fifth Jew

M

Morris Robinson

First Nazarene

D

Donovan Singletary

Second Nazarine

R

Reginald Braithwaite

Executioner

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