Salomé: Wexford Festival Opera

Over het evenement

A rarely‐performed operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s perceptive play about Herod’s dysfunctional family and the unhappy step‐relationships between Herod, his second wife Herodias and his niece and stepdaughter Salomé.

Salomé, composed by the French sailor‐turned‐composer Antoine Mariotte (1875–1944), is an opera based on Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play Salomé. Mariotte followed closely Wilde’s French text, portraying the emotional extremes, passions and secret terrors of the dysfunctional family of Hérod, Tetrarch of Judea, his second wife Hérodias (who was also his sister‐in‐law as well as his niece), and Salomé who was both Hérod’s great‐niece and his step‐daughter.

At the heart of it all is Iokanaan, John the Baptist, imprisoned for telling Hérod disturbing truths about his immoral conduct. Salomé lives for passion and excitement; she desires Iokanaan, but he rebuffs her. The inevitable tragedies follow, set in motion by Hérod’s drunken oaths and Salomé’s perverse desires.

Cast:

Salomé: Na'ama Goldman
Hérodias: Nora Sourouzian
Hérod: Scott Wilde
Iokanaan: Igor Golovatenko
Le Jeune Syrien: Eamonn Mulhall

Conductor: David Angus
Stage Director: Rosetta Cucchi
Set Designer: Tiziano Santi
Costume Designer: Claudia Pernigotti
Lighting Designer: DM Wood

Evening dress and black‐tie is the recommended dress code for the evening operas. There is no recommended dress code for daytime events.