Event Details

Opera Screening

Sung in German with English Subtitles

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted 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.

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

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