Strauss: Salome
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.
Top Billed Cast
Karita Mattila
Salome
Ildikó Komlósi
Herodias
Joseph Kaiser
Narraboth
Kim Begley
Herod
Juha Uusitalo
Jochanaan
Featured Crew
Patrick Summers
Conductor
Hedwig Lachmann
Writer
Richard Strauss
Original Music Composer
Barbara Willis Sweete
Director
Jay David Saks
Music Producer
Peter Gelb
Executive Producer
Elena Park
Supervising Producer
Jürgen Flimm
Production Design
Santo Loquasto
Set Designer
Santo Loquasto
Costume Designer
James F. Ingalls
Lighting Design
Doug Varone
Choreographer
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