Salomé

Salome - Lydia Steier

• Conductor

  Simone Young

• Music

  Richard Strauss
  (1864 - 1949)

• Libretto

  Richard Strauss

• Director

  Lydia Steier

• Set design and video

  Momme Hinrichs

• Costume design

  Andy Besuch

• Lighting design

  Olaf Freese

• Dramaturgy

  Maurice Lenhard

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod who is afraid of him. Obsessed by this enigmatic and virtuous man, Salome is ready to do anything to possess him, dead or alive. Drawing on Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play of the same name, in 1905 Richard Strauss produced the work that was to ensure his status as Wagner’s successor in the history of German opera. “Dance for me, Salome”. From Herod’s lubricious injunction to the young woman stems one of the most emblematic orchestral passages in opera: the dance of the seven veils. A hypnotic interlude in itself sufficient to capture the fatal mounting desire that suffuses this work whose orchestration is as rich as it is modern. A dazzling hour and forty minutes, decadent in its very essence, which, for her debut at the Paris Opera, Lydia Steier treats as a dystopia in which amorality rules.

Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Salomé is the subject of a recording directed by François-René Martin, co-produced by the Paris Opera and Telmondis, with the participation of Mezzo and Medici.tv, with the support of the CNC and the Orange Foundation, sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcasts.
This performance will be broadcast live on 27 October 2022 at 8pm on L'Opéra chez soi and on medici.tv, and with the support of FRA cinéma, in UGC cinemas, as part of their "Viva l'Opéra!" season, and in independent cinemas in France and Europe, and later worldwide. Broadcast on 4 November 2022 at 9pm on Mezzo live HD. Broadcast on 30 November 2022 at 7pm in CGR cinemas.

Opera recorded by France Musique and broadcast on November 19th 2022 in "Samedi à l'Opéra", presented by Judith Chaine.

Salomé

Salome - Lydia Steier

• Salomé

  Elza van den Heever

• Herodes

  John Daszak

• Herodias

  Karita Mattila

• Jochanaan

  Iain Paterson

• Narraboth

  Tansel Akzeybek

• Page der Herodias

  Katharina Magiera

• Erster Jude

  Matthäus Schmidlechner

• Zweiter Jude

  Éric Huchet

• Dritter Jude

  Maciej Kwaśnikowski

• Vierter Jude

  Mathias Vidal

• Fünfter Jude

  Sava Vemić

• Erster Nazarener

  Luke Stoker

• Zweiter Nazarener

  Yiorgo Ioannou

• Erster Soldat

  Dominic Barberi

• Zweiter Soldat

  Bastian Thomas Kohl

• Cappadocier

  Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

• Ein Sklave

  Marion Grange