Salomé (Opéra de Paris)

The story

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

E Elza van den HeeverSalomé K Karita MattilaHerodias I Iain PatersonJochanaan T Tansel AkzeybekNarraboth J John DaszakHerodes K Katharina MagieraPage of Herodias M Matthaus SchmidlechnerFirst Jew É Éric HuchetSecond Jew M Maciej KwasnikowskiThird Jew M Mathias VidalFourth Jew S Sava VemicFifth Jew L Luke StokerFirst Nazarene

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Y Yiorgo IoannouSecond Nazarene D Dominic Philip BarberiFirst soldier B Bastian Thomas KohlSecond soldier A Alejandro Baliñas VieitesA Cappadocian M Marion GrangeA slave