Strauss: Salome (2008)
Overview
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.
Cast
Karita Mattila
Salome
Keith Miller
First soldier
Richard Berstein
Second soldier
John Easterlin
Fourth Jew
James Courtney
Fifth Jew
