Strauss: Salome (2008)

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.

Producers	The Metropolitan Opera, Sony Classical
Original title	Strauss: Salome
Directors	Barbara Willis Sweete
Writers	Hedwig Lachmann, Oscar Wilde

Cast

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