Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was immediately carried away when he saw Oscar Wilde’s drama “Salomé” in 1902 in Berlin. “The piece cries out for music”, he declared, and set to work on a score which remains unparalleled to this day: never before had the vibrancy of a sultry tropical night been captured in tones so suggestively, never before had music of such overwhelming sensuality been written.
Today “Salome” has long since ceased to play the part of a scandal shocker. Time has not so much overlaid it with patina as uncovered more and more new facets of this fascinating female figure. Salome lends herself to several interpretations, from the men-consuming vamp to the luxury spoilt kitten to a young woman fleeing towards being somehow different; her tragedy is heightened by the unconditional, immoderate nature of her attempts to escape from the life in which she is captive. She tears open a world that itself disintegrates, not least through Herod’s call to “kill that woman!”


”A study of the catastrophic potential inherent in a desire out of control through power and violence, of the traumatization of its victims and of attempts to come to grips with it through religiously charged delusions of renunciation. Its theatrical realization is lively in action and has the qualities of a psychological thriller”
Joachim Lange, Wiener Zeitung


 
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Richard Strauss

SALOME
Opera in one act
Libretto by Richard Strauss based on Oscar Wilde's "Salomé"
 
Sung in German with titles
 

Musikalische Leitung Wen-Pin Chien
Inszenierung Tatjana Gürbaca
Bühne und Licht Klaus Grünberg
Kostüme Silke Willrett
Dramaturgie Anne do Paço
 
Herodes Wolfgang Schmidt
Herodias Renate Behle
Salome Morenike Fadayomi
Jochanaan Mark Morouse
Narraboth Ovidiu Purcel
Page Katarzyna Kuncio
Erster Jude Cornel Frey
Zweiter Jude Florian Simson
Dritter Jude Paul Stefan Onaga
Vierter Jude Johannes Preißinger
Fünfter Jude Benno Remling
Erster Nazarener Martin Blasius
Zweiter Nazarener Attila Fodre
Erster Soldat David Jerusalem
Zweiter Soldat Lukasz Konieczny
Cappadocier Felix Rathgeber
Sklave Luiza Fatyol
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker