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Soprano

Elza van den Heever

Salome

Mezzo-soprano

Michelle DeYoung

Herodias

Tenor

Piotr Buszewski

Narraboth

Baritone

Peter Mattei

John the Baptist

Conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Derrick Inouye

Stage director

Claus Guth

Set designer

Etienne Pluss

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Lighting designer

Olaf Freese

Video designer

Roland Horvath

Rocafilm

Choreographer

Sommer Ulrickson

Dramaturge

Yvonne Gebauer

Singer

Gerhard Siegel

Herod

Chad Shelton

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

German

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Salome Strauss

Public

Rahul Solomon

English

Spanish

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Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Derrick Inouye conducts two performances in May.

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