Salome - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Salome

Text Hedwig Lachmann after Oscar Wilde
Opera in one act


Musical direction
Philippe Jordan

Staging
Cyril Teste

Stage
Valérie Grall

Costumes
Marie La Rocca

Light
Julien Boizard

Video
Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Herodes
Jörg Schneider

Herodias
Michaela Schuster

Salome
Malin Byström

Jochanaan
Iain Paterson

Narraboth
Hiroshi Amako

Page
Isabel Signoret



Contents

On the occasion of Richard Strauss's Salome, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, said the following: »Since when has art been identical with dirt? [...] the demimonde kindly keep to themselves, and you wouldn't dare bring dishes teeming with bacteria, poison of the very worst kind, to a decent table.« He was not alone in this: Gustav Mahler, who had the stroke of genius of the score, failed in his efforts to stage the work after the Dresden premiere in 1905 at the Vienna Court Opera, which he directed: "The presentation of events that belong in the field of sexual pathology is not suitable for our court stage", was the final conclusion of the censor. The sensational Austrian premiere took place under the musical direction of the composer in 1906 in the Graz Opera House, the Vienna premiere took place in 1907 as part of a guest performance from Breslau in what is now the Volkstheater, and it was not until 1918 that the Court Opera followed suit.



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