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Opera Richard Strauss after Oscar Wilde
Salome, princess of Judea, daughter-in-law of King Herods, lives in his palace. She hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod. Salome is ready to do anything for him. 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. “Dance for me, Salome”. From Herod’s lubricious injunction to the young woman stems one of the most emblematic orchestral passages in opera: the dance of the seven veils. A hypnotic interlude in itself sufficient to capture the fatal mounting desire that suffuses this work whose orchestration is as rich as it is modern. 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.
Salomé : Elza van den Heever Herodes : John Daszak Herodias : Karita Mattila Jochanaan : Iain Paterson
Conductor : Simone Young Set design : Momme Hinrichs Costume design : Andy Besuch Lighting design : Olaf Freese Dramaturgy : Maurice Lenhard
German
English
Production compagny : Telmondis
Coproduction compagny : Opera national de Paris
Running Time : 100
Production Year : 2022
Distribution compagny : Telmondis Distribution
Video Format : HD