Strauss: Salome
2008It 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.
Acted in
Karita Mattila
as Salome
Ildikó Komlósi
as Herodias
Joseph Kaiser
as Narraboth
Kim Begley
as Herod
Juha Uusitalo
as Jochanaan
Lucy Schaufer
as The page
Keith Miller
as First soldier
Richard Berstein
as Second soldier
David Won
as A Cappadocian
Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis
as A slave
Allan Glassman
as First Jew
Mark Schowalter
as Second Jew
Adam Klein
as Third Jew
John Easterlin
as Fourth Jew
James Courtney
as Fifth Jew
Morris Robinson
as First Nazarene
Donovan Singletary
as Second Nazarine
Reginald Braithwaite
as Executioner