Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Conductor

Mikko Franck

Stage director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Production Assistant

Marielle Kahn

Set designer

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Lighting designer

Felice Ross

Video designer

Kamil Polak

Choreographer

Claude Bardouil

Dramaturge

Miron Hakenbeck

Malte Krasting

Singer

Soprano

Camilla Nylund

Salome

Baritone

Wolfgang Koch

John the Baptist

Tenor

Evan LeRoy Johnson

Narraboth

Mezzo-soprano

Christina Bock

A Page of Herodias

Ya-Chung Huang

First Jew

Brenton Ryan

Second Jew

Dean Power

Third Jew

Kevin Conners

Fourth Jew

Bass

Daniel Noyola

Fifth Jew

Tilmann Rönnebeck

First Nazarene

Jonas Hacker

Second Nazarene

Martin Snell

First soldier

Bálint Szabó

Second soldier

Gabriel Rollinson

A Cappadocian

Elmira Karakhanova

A slave

Costume designer

Gerhard Siegel

Herod

Vida Mikneviciute

Iain Paterson

Bayerische Staatsoper

François-Xavier Roth

Constantin Trinks

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Herodias

Michaela Schuster

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

German

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Salome Strauss,R

Public

Private

English

Approved

"The secret of love is greater than the secret of death" (Salome)

How beautiful Princess Salome is tonight!". Oscar Wilde's French drama, arranged as opera text by the composer himself, was a stroke of genius of the fin de siècle, a scandal on one hand and an absolute hit on the other, both an artistic and a financial success which allowed Richard Strauss to buy his villa in Garmisch. Salome demands the head of the prophet, John the Baptist, who has rejected her, from her lustful stepfather – and bound by an oath, he cannot deny her. And so the zealous admonisher dies, and with him the princess is undone – "Kill this woman!". Krzysztof Warlikowski is convinced that Salome recounts many of the contradictions of the period of origin, that in this piece, however, much is also dismissed of that which at the time was still the future: "It's not just what's in the work of art itself that is important, whether it be Oscar Wilde or Richard Strauss, but rather the whole context, which Christianity and the history of the 20th century add to this piece.

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Crew

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