Organization

Tenor (+5)

Thomas Blondelle

Herod

Bass (+1)

Tobias Kehrer

Second soldier

Gideon Poppe

A slave

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Claus Guth

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Muriel Gerstner

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Olaf Freese

Choreographer

Choreographer (+1)

Sommer Ulrickson

Conductor

Axel Kober

Costume designer

Baritone (+3)

Jordan Shanahan

John the Baptist

Tenor (+6)

Ya-Chung Huang

First Jew

Kyle Miller

Second Nazarene

Baritone (+2)

Daniel Nicholson

A Cappadocian

Tenor (+4)

Andrew Dickinson

Fourth Jew

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Ballet

Opera Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Second Jew

Bass (+3)

Andrew Harris

First soldier

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Annika Schlicht

A Page of Herodias

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Petra Lang

Herodias

Soprano (+2)

Jennifer Holloway

Salome

Vida Mikneviciute

Tenor

Mihails Čuļpajevs

Narraboth

Attilio Glaser

Dong-Hwan Lee

First Nazarene

Bass-baritone (+3)

Byung Gil Kim

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Maire Therese Carmack

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen

Tenor (+2)

Michael Smallwood

Third Jew

Jörg Schörner

Fifth Jew

Bass-baritone (+2)

Joel Allison

Tenor (+3)

Álvaro Zambrano

Bass-baritone (+4)

Padraic Rowan

David Oštrek

When Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" was first staged in Paris in 1896, the author was serving a prison sentence in London for "gross immorality". In Great Britain and also in the German-speaking countries, only private performances of the scandal-ridden piece were possible. Richard Strauss attended one of these in 1902 in Max Reinhardt's "Kleines Theater" in Berlin. A year later he decided to base a one-act opera on Wilde's text. The premiere of SALOME in Dresden in 1905 was a resounding success for the composer. In it he challenges the genre: intoxicating and love-drunk music contrasts with the most horrible, monstrous event imaginable.

The opera begins without a prelude and we are catapulted straight into Salome's world. Salome lives in a perfect bourgeois world. She is the daughter of Herodias. She lives with her with her stepfather Herod - a powerful man in a man's world. And he has a very special relationship with his new daughter, the little princess. And she to him. The child Salome grows up in this family constellation. And at night, when everyone else is asleep, she imagines her own world. She takes up the fight with her new father, who intimidates her, who desires her, who plays with her. She wants to conquer this father, this man. She remembers her childhood and she watches herself play: father, mother, child. This is a highly explosive world she dreams herself into. Out of these dark dreams, Salome creates a figure at night, an alternative to the world in which she finds herself. This being is Jokanaan. In the family game he acts as the anti-father, as the weapon against the father, as a redeemer and savior figure. And when day breaks, Jochanaan sits at the table with father, mother and the warlike child. Together with Jochanaan, Salome will disrupt this order.

SALOME is Claus Guth's first work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since 1999, when he staged CRONACA DEL LUOGO by Luciano Berio at the Salzburg Festival with great success, he has been one of the most sought-after opera directors in the world. Salzburg, where he staged the “Da Ponte Trilogy” [with Anna Netrebko as Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO], Bayreuth [THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 2003], Zurich, Milan, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresden and the Theater an der Vienna is one of his regular stops, as is the State Opera in the Schillertheater.

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Berlin

Germany

Salome Strauss,R

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Opera

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SALOME ist eine der ersten modernen „Literaturopern“. Strauss entschied sich schnell, das von Hedwig Lachmann übersetzte Drama „Salomé“ von Oscar Wilde in Tö...

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Salome, Strauss

Cast

Herodes

2. Soldat

Ein Sklave

Jochanaan

1. Jude

2. Nazarener

Ein Kappadozier

4. Jude

2. Jude

1. Soldat

Ein Page der Herodias

Herodias

Salome

Narraboth

1. Nazarener

3. Jude

5. Jude

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