Salome
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Salome

Richard Strauss - New Production
May 17, 2025

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Matte in a brilliant restaging of Strauss's stunning tragedy.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss's white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe's leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde's play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is South African soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by Swedish baritone Peter Mattei. German tenor Gerhard Siegel sings the role of Salome's lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Runtime 2h15m

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