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.
Full SynopsisPerformance Info
Performance Date
Oct 11, 2008
Composer
Richard Strauss
Librettist
Hedwig Lachmann after Oscar Wilde
Run Time
1 HRS 46 MIN
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DVD release by Sony Classical / The Metropolitan Opera