Strauss: Salome

Strauss: Salome — Plot

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

• Release date
• October 11, 2008
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Genres
• Music, Drama
• Director
• Barbara Willis Sweete

Strauss: Salome — Cast

Karita Mattila Salome

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Ildikó Komlósi Herodias

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Joseph Kaiser Narraboth

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Kim Begley Herod

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Juha Uusitalo Jochanaan

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Lucy Schaufer The page Keith Miller First soldier Richard Berstein Second soldier