Saturday, May 17 :: 1 PM

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD:

Salome

By Richard Strauss

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Pre-opera talk by Andrew Shryock, 12 PM

Production: Claus Guth | Set Designer: Etienne Pluss | Costume Designer: Ursula Kudrna| Lighting Designer: Olaf Freese | Projection Designer: rocafilm/Roland Horvath | Choreographer: Sommer Ulrickson | Dramaturg: Yvonne Gebauer

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle DeYoung (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan)

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. 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.

Approx. runtime: 2 hours 15 min., No intermission