Organization

Singer

Baritone

Andrew Foster-Williams

John the Baptist

Tenor

Nikolai Schukoff

Herod

Mezzo-soprano

Karin Lovelius

Herodias

Mihails Čuļpajevs

Narraboth

Elli Vallinoja

A Page of Herodias

Petri Vesa

First Jew

Joonas Eloranta

Second Jew

Roland Liiv

Third Jew

Mika Pohjonen

Fourth Jew

Bass

Koit Soasepp

Fifth Jew

Matti Turunen

First Nazarene

Jussi Merikanto

Second Nazarene

Soprano

Heikki Hattunen

A slave

Conductor

Hannu Lintu

Lighting designer

Olaf Winter

Costume designer

Robby Duiveman

Set designer

Johannes Leiacker

Choreographer

Klevis Elmazaj

Stage director

Christof Loy

Lawrence Renes

Elena Stikhina

Salome

Vida Mikneviciute

Manuela Uhl

Visa Kohva

First soldier

Marko Nykänen

Second soldier

Juha Pikkarainen

A Cappadocian

Finnish National Opera

Others

Finnish National Opera Chorus

Orchestra

Finnish National Opera Orchestra

German

Helsinki

Finland

Recording of Salome performed by the Finnish National Opera on 7 April 2022.

MUSIC Richard Strauss
CONDUCTOR Hannu Lintu
DIRECTOR Christof Loy
SETS Johannes Leiacker
COSTUMES Robby Duiveman
CHOREOGRAPHY Klevis Elmazaj
LIGHTING DESIGN Olaf Winter

Cast:
HERODES Nikolai Schukoff, HERODIAS Karin Lovelius, SALOME Vida Miknevičiūtė, NARRABOTH Mihails Čulpajevs, JOCHANAAN Andrew Foster-Williams, HERODIA’S PAGE Elli Vallinoja, 1ST JEW Petri Vesa, 2ND JEW Joonas Eloranta, 3RD JEW Roland Liiv, 4TH JEW Alexander Kravets, 5TH JEW Koit Soasepp, 1ST NAZARENE Matti Turunen, 2ND NAZARENE Johannes Vatjus, 1ST SOLDIER Visa Kohva, 2:E SOLDATEN Marko Nykänen, A CAPPADOCIAN Juha Pikkarainen, A SLAVE Heikki Hattune

Production: Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle and Finnish National Opera and Ballet 2022.

Available worldwide until 7 April 2023.

Salome Strauss,R

Public

Finnish

Swedish

English

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ichard Strauss: Salome
Ensi-ilta Suomen Kansallisoopperassa 18.3.2022

Salomen ensiesitys 1905 teki hetkessä Richard Straussista oopperasäveltäjän, jonka nimi oli kaikkien huulilla. Aikansa kohuooppera ihastutti ja tyrmistytti uskonnollisuutta ja erotiikkaa uhkuvalla aiheellaan ja uudenlaisella sävelkielellään. Nyt, yli sata vuotta myöhemmin, on aika etsiä tarinaan uusia näkökulmia.

Libretto Oscar Wilde
Ohjaus Christof Loy
Lavastus Johannes Leiacker
Puvut Robby Duiveman
Valaistus Olaf Winter
Koreografia Klevis Elmazaj

Musiikki: Suomen kansallisoopperan orkesteri ja kuoro

After Salome’s world premiere in 1905, Richard Strauss became an opera composer whose name was on everyone’s lips. Sensational in its time, Salome was received with both wonder and shock, thanks to its theme combining religion and eroticism and its groundbreaking musical language. The one act opera is one of the most powerful and intensive representations of the genre of all time.
Christof Loy’s novel approach to the classic work
When director Christof Loy debuted at the Finnish National Opera with Tosca in 2018, his production was acclaimed by critics and the audience alike. Now the award-winning director has made an equally ravishing interpretation of Salome.

”Richard Strauss’s life and work reflect a special understanding and affinity for complex female characters. The opera is typical of its time in the way it explores sexual traumatas. Now, more than a hundred years later, it’s time to seek new angles to the story.

My aim was to set Salome free from the Lolita-like clichee of the girlish femme fatale of the fin de siècle, and to rather see in her a ‘dove that has strayed’, as Narraboth describes her. She takes us on a journey that questions gender and sexuality, initially dressed as a young man, maybe to protect herself, maybe in jest. Oscar Wilde meets Virginia Woolf.”

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