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.
as Salomé
as Herodias
as Jochanaan
as Narraboth
as Herodes
as Page of Herodias
as First Jew
as Second Jew
as Third Jew
as Fourth Jew
as Fifth Jew
as First Nazarene
as Second Nazarene
as First soldier
as Second soldier
as A Cappadocian
as A slave
