Name: Salome
Start: 2025-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper

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Staatsoper Hamburg

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Dmitri Tcherniakov

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Elena Zaitseva

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Gleb Filshtinsky

Dramaturge

Janina Zell

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Tenor

Peter Hoare

Herod

Mezzo-soprano

Claudia Mahnke

Herodias

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Vida Mikneviciute

Salome

Baritone

Christopher Maltman

John the Baptist

Jana Kurucová

A Page of Herodias

Florian Panzieri

Narraboth

Jürgen Sacher

Second Jew

Daniel Kluge

Third Jew

Aaron Godfrey-Mayes

Fourth Jew

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Hubert Kowalczyk

Fifth Jew

Nicholas Mogg

Second Nazarene

David Minseok Kang

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Karl Huml

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Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

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Alexander Soddy

Liam James Karai

First Nazarene

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Rahul Solomon

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Salome Strauss

Unter dem Antlitz des wandernden Mondes streiten Geist und Leib in all ihrer Größe und Erbärmlichkeit, bis das Blut zweier Körper fließt. Strauss bleibt nah an der Wilde’schen Nachschöpfung des biblischen Stoffes, die Salome vom Werkzeug ihrer Mutter zur Autonomie führt. Sie ist es, die in ihrem unerfüllten Verlangen nach dem befreiend Andersartigen, dem Körper des Propheten Jochanaan, auf Rache sinnt und seinen Kopf verlangt – ein Preis, den die männerdominierte Gesellschaft um Herodes für ihren Tanz zu zahlen bereit ist. Nun, da Salome seinen abgetrennten Kopf in Händen hält, kann sie Jochanaan küssen, ihn wenn nicht lebendig, so doch tot besitzen. Wie unter einem Brennglas gießt Strauss die dämonische Dramaturgie Oscar Wildes gleich einer Eruption der Psyche in Töne und begleitet seine Protagonistin von ihrem gescheiterten Ausbruch aus der Dekadenz ihres Daseins in den Tod.

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Under the face of the wandering moon, spirit and body quarrel in all their greatness and wretchedness until the blood of two bodies flows. Strauss remains close to Wilde's re-creation of the biblical material, which leads Salome from her mother's tool to autonomy. It is she who, in her unfulfilled desire for the liberatingly different, the body of the prophet Jochanaan, seeks revenge and demands his head - a price the male-dominated society around Herod is willing to pay for their dance. Now that Salome holds his severed head in her hands, she can kiss Jochanaan, possess him if not alive, then dead. As if under a burning glass, Strauss pours Oscar Wilde's demonic dramaturgy into sound like an eruption of the psyche, accompanying his protagonist from her failed escape from the decadence of her existence to her death.

Salome by Strauss, Sat 07 Jun 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov,, Conductor Alexander Soddy, Staatsoper, Hamburg, Germany

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