Met Opera: Salome

The Story

Met Music Director Yannick Ne´zet-Se´guin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Rating

CTC

Duration

125 min

Cast

Peter Mattei, Michelle DeYoung, Elza van den Heever, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski

Director

The Metropolitan Opera