SALOME - Live from met

Our own opera star Peter Mattei plays the role of the prophet Jochanaan in Strauss' opera about forbidden desire. The Metropolitan's music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will take the conductor's baton on May 17 to lead this one-act play, which will be broadcast live in cinemas in Sweden.
 

At the helm of the Met's first new production of Salome in 20 years, we have Claus Guth, one of Europe's leading opera directors, placing the biblical story in a psychologically astute Victorian setting. This powerful opera derives from a biblical story: a young princess from Judea dances for her stepfather Herod and chooses as a reward the head of the prophet John the Baptist. This theme attracted the imaginations of many artists, but was perhaps best realized in Oscar Wilde's tragedy of 1891. Strauss's score combines the grandeur of Wagner's epic works with the focus and emotional power of the short Italian verismo operas. Salome premiered at the Dresden Court Opera in 1905.
 

South African soprano Elza van den Heever stars as the unbalanced anti-heroine Salome, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan. German tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome's unpleasant stepfather King Herod, American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung plays his wife Herodias, and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski is Narraboth.

About 2 hours and 15 minutes