Strauss: Salome

Strauss: Salome

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.

Top Cast

Karita Mattila

As Salome

Ildikó Komlósi

As Herodias

Joseph Kaiser

As Narraboth

Kim Begley

As Herod

Juha Uusitalo

As Jochanaan

Lucy Schaufer

As The page

Keith Miller

As First soldier

Richard Berstein

As Second soldier

David Won

As A Cappadocian

Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis

As A slave