Name: Salome
Start: 2008-02-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2008-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Nadja Michael

Salome

Mezzo-soprano

Michaela Schuster

Herodias

Daniela Sindram

A Page of Herodias

Tenor

Thomas Moser

Herod

Robin Leggate

Joseph Kaiser

Narraboth

Baritone

Michael Volle

John the Baptist

Bass

Iain Paterson

First Nazarene

Andrew Mayor

Second Nazarene

Julian Tovey

Christian Sist

First soldier

Alan Ewing

Second soldier

Adrian Thompson

First Jew

Martyn Hill

Second Jew

Hubert Francis

Third Jew

Ji-Min Park

Fourth Jew

Jeremy White

Fifth Jew

Vuyani Mlinde

A Cappadocian

Pumeza Matshikiza

A slave

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Stage director

David McVicar

Set designer

Es Devlin

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Wolfgang Göbbel

Royal Opera House

London

United Kingdom

Salome's biblical story inspired Oscar Wilde a tragedy and Richard Strauss an opera. David McVicar staged this opera of extravagant intensity in the Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in June 2012.

Salome gave Richard Strauss the reputation of a first-rank opera composer; Gustav Mahler called it "one of the most important works of our day". The staging's opening tableau introduces a world of debauchery. While the Tetrach and his guests savour a banquet on the upper floor, servants, guards and prostitutes wait to be summoned in a filthy kitchen downstairs. The vile atmosphere is reinforced by Es Devlin's Art-Deco-inspired designs. Salome, interpreted by Nadja Michael, is innocence, sensuality and violence. Strauss famously said the role was "written for a 16-year-old with the voice of an Isolde".

Main Stage

Salome Strauss,R

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading