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  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
  • Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus
    Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin, © Photo: Monika Rittershaus

Salome: Deutsche Oper Berlin

About the Event

Richard Strauss's 'Salome' was one of the first literary operas of the 20th century. With this production, Claus Guth gives his directing debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Even after its world premiere in 1896, Oscar Wilde’s tragedy “Salomé” remained a thorn in the eye of the establishment across Europe. Official art adjudicators considered the subject “repulsive” and the text “an insult to morality”. Richard Strauss saw a private performance of Wilde’s play in 1902 and resolved to use Hedwig Lachmann’s prose text as the basis for his composition.

Salome's brutal stepfather, Herod, persuades her to dance for him. Encouraged by her mother, she demands to be given the head of John the Baptist in return.

Sung in German with English and German surtitles

Cast / Production

Conductor Axel Kober
Stage Director Claus Guth
Set Design, Costume Design Muriel Gerstner
Lighting Olaf Freese
Choreographer Sommer Ulrickson

Herodes Thomas Blondelle
Herodias Doris Soffel, Petra Lang (17.03.2023 | 24.03.2023)
Salome Jennifer Holloway, Vida Mikneviciute (17.03.2023 | 24.03.2023)
Jochanaan Jordan Shanahan
Narraboth Mihails Culpajev, Attilio Glaser (17.03.2023 | 24.03.2023)
A bellboy N. N., Annika Schlicht (17.03.2023 | 24.03.2023)
1st Jew Ya‐Chung Huang
2nd Jew Gideon Poppe
3rd Jew Andrew Dickinson
4th Jew Jörg Schörner
5th Jew Joel Allison
1st Nazarene Dong‐Hwan Lee, Byung Gil Kim (17.03.2023 | 24.03.2023)
2nd Nazarene Kyle Miller
1st soldier Andrew Harris
2nd soldier Tobias Kehrer
A Cappadocier Daniel Nicholson
A slave Gideon Poppe
Orchestra Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Ballet Opernballett der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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