Organization

Conductor

Simone Young

Stage director

Lydia Steier

Video designer

Momme Hinrichs

Costume designer

Andy Besuch

Lighting designer

Olaf Freese

Dramaturge

Maurice Lenhard

Singer

Soprano

Elza van den Heever

Salome

Tenor

Zoran Todorovich

Herod

Mezzo-soprano

Karita Mattila

Herodias

Baritone

Iain Paterson

John the Baptist

Tansel Akzeybek

Narraboth

Katharina Magiera

A Page of Herodias

Matthäus Schmidlechner

First Jew

Éric Huchet

Second Jew

Maciej Kwaśnikowski

Third Jew

Mathias Vidal

Fourth Jew

Bass

Sava Vemić

Fifth Jew

Luke Stoker

First Nazarene

Yiorgo Ioannou

Second Nazarene

Dominic Barberi

First soldier

Bastian Thomas Kohl

Second soldier

Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

A Cappadocian

John Daszak

Marion Grange

A slave

Set designer

Opéra National de Paris

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

German

Paris

France

Opéra Bastille

Certain scenes contain content that some viewers may find objectionable.

The first performance of Richard Strauss's Salome, which took place in 1905 in Dresden, was a thunderous triumph despite the many difficulties involved in bringing the work to the stage. The provocative lyric drama, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, met with 38 curtain calls by the enraptured audience, firmly establishing Strauss's genius as an operatic composer and innovator.

In this intense, defiantly modern masterpiece, the orchestra brings out all the vivid and mordant colors in Strauss's score, and the title role is an staggering tour de force of expressivity. Conductor Simone Young brings Strauss's music to life in this new production by the Paris Opera, staged by Lydia Steier with an extraordinary cast centered around star soprano Elza van den Heever in the role of Salome.

Certain scenes contain content of a violent or sexual nature that some viewers may find objectionable.

The first performance of Richard Strauss's Salome, which took place in 1905 in Dresden, was a thunderous triumph despite the many difficulties involved in bringing the work to the stage. The provocative lyric drama, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, met with 38 curtain calls by the enraptured audience, firmly establishing Strauss's genius as an operatic composer and innovator.

In this intense, defiantly modern masterpiece, the orchestra brings out all the vivid and mordant colors in Strauss's score, and the title role is an staggering tour de force of expressivity. Conductor Simone Young brings Strauss's music to life in this new production by the Paris Opera, staged by Lydia Steier with an extraordinary cast centered around star soprano Elza van den Heever in the role of Salome.

Public

French

English

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading