
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.
Strauss: Salome
October 11, 2008
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Cast (18)

Karita Mattila
Salome

Ildikó Komlósi
Herodias

Joseph Kaiser
Narraboth

Kim Begley
Herod

Juha Uusitalo
Jochanaan

Lucy Schaufer
The page

Keith Miller
First soldier

Richard Berstein
Second soldier

David Won
A Cappadocian

Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis
A slave

Allan Glassman
First Jew

Mark Schowalter
Second Jew

Adam Klein
Third Jew

John Easterlin
Fourth Jew

James Courtney
Fifth Jew

Morris Robinson
First Nazarene

Donovan Singletary
Second Nazarine

Reginald Braithwaite
Executioner
Crew (17)
Directing

Barbara Willis Sweete
Director
Writing

Oscar Wilde
Theatre Play

Hedwig Lachmann
Writer
Production

Mia Bongiovanni
Supervising Producer

Victoria Warivonchik
Producer

Elena Park
Supervising Producer

Louisa Briccetti
Producer

Peter Gelb
Executive Producer
Sound
Art

Jürgen Flimm
Production Design

Santo Loquasto
Set Designer
Camera
No data availableCostume & Make-Up

Santo Loquasto
Costume Designer
Crew

Doug Varone
Choreographer

Ron Washburn
Technical Supervisor
Editing
No data availableLighting

James F. Ingalls
Lighting Design