MET 2024/25 - Richard Strauss: Salome

Content warning: Salome contains adult themes and disturbing imagery

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

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Ticket information

Tickets are available at the Cassa of the Urania National Filmtheater and in the Ticket Sale System of Interticket.

Ticket price: 5900 HUF
Discounted tickets are available at the price of 4900 for those purchasing tickets for at least 8 different performances for the season at the same time.

Please note that after the start of the screening, you can only take a seat on the floor side.

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Directorate of Uránia National Film Theater

Director: Claus Guth

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Set Designer: Etienne Pluss
Costume Designer: Ursula Kudrna

Cast: Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle DeYoung (Heródiás), Gerhard Siegel (Heródes), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan)