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London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Antonio Pappano

Soprano (+2)

Asmik Grigorian

Salome

Baritone (+4)

Michael Volle

John the Baptist

Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a concert performance of Strauss’ scandalous opera Salome, with the brilliant soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

The Music
The story of Salome has fascinated artists, writer and painters for centuries. Richard Strauss’s version of this anti-heroine comes from a drama by Oscar Wilde. Both play and opera scandalised society, and even today the opera has a visceral power with its combination of lust, religion and disturbingly gory ‘love-song’, and its sensuous, shocking music.

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