Salomé (Opéra de Paris) (2022)
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.
Director: François-René Martin
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Elza van den Heever as Salomé |
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Karita Mattila as Herodias |
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Iain Paterson as Jochanaan |
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Tansel Akzeybek as Narraboth |
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John Daszak as Herodes |
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Katharina Magiera as Page of Herodias |
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Matthaus Schmidlechner as First Jew |
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Éric Huchet as Second Jew |
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Maciej Kwasnikowski as Third Jew |
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Mathias Vidal as Fourth Jew |
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Sava Vemic as Fifth Jew |
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Luke Stoker as First Nazarene |
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Yiorgo Ioannou as Second Nazarene |
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Dominic Philip Barberi as First soldier |
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Bastian Thomas Kohl as Second soldier |
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Alejandro Baliñas Vieites as A Cappadocian |
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Marion Grange as A slave |
| Directing | Lydia Steier | Stage Director |
| Sound | Simone Young | Conductor |
| Directing | François-René Martin | Director |
| Sound | Richard Strauss | Music |
| Writing | Oscar Wilde | Writer |
| Writing | Hedwig Lachmann | Writer |
