© plainpicture/Jasmin Sander
Salomé
Opéra Bastille
20h
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
Salomé
Salome - Lydia Steier
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Music
Richard Strauss
(1864 - 1949) -
ConductorSimone Young
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Libretto
Richard Strauss
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Director
Lydia Steier
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Set design and video
Momme Hinrichs
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Costume design
Andy Besuch
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Lighting design
Olaf Freese
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Dramaturgy
Maurice Lenhard
Cast
Heever
Salomé
Daszak
Herodes
Mattila
Herodias
Paterson
Jochanaan
Akzeybek
Narraboth
Magiera
Page der Herodias
Schmidlechner
Erster Jude
Huchet
Zweiter Jude
Kwaśnikowski
Dritter Jude
Vidal
Vierter Jude
Vemić
Fünfter Jude
Stoker
Erster Nazarener
Ioannou
Zweiter Nazarener
Barberi
Erster Soldat
Kohl
Zweiter Soldat
Vieites
Cappadocier
Grange
Ein Sklave
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.