Salomé (Opéra de Paris)
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100 minutes
10/27/2022
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.
Cast List
Elza van den Heever
as Salomé
Karita Mattila
as Herodias
Iain Paterson
as Jochanaan
Tansel Akzeybek
as Narraboth
John Daszak
as Herodes
Katharina Magiera
as Page of Herodias
Matthaus Schmidlechner
as First Jew
Éric Huchet
as Second Jew
Maciej Kwasnikowski
as Third Jew
Mathias Vidal
as Fourth Jew
Sava Vemic
as Fifth Jew
Luke Stoker
as First Nazarene
Yiorgo Ioannou
as Second Nazarene
Dominic Philip Barberi
as First soldier
Bastian Thomas Kohl
as Second soldier
Alejandro Baliñas Vieites
as A Cappadocian
Marion Grange
as A slave