Salome
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Sung in German with projected English translation
Audience discretion advised
1 hour and 45 minutes
No intermission
R. Strauss
Salome
She always gets what she wants.
R. Strauss’s powerful psychodrama Salome returns to HGO for the first time in 20 years in a production directed by Francisco Negrin. The revolutionary score reinvents Oscar Wilde’s biblical drama of a deeply disturbed princess who has fallen in love with Jokanaan (John the Baptist). After he denies her, she performs the infamous and seductive “Dance of the Seven Veils” for King Herod in exchange for John’s head.
Lise Lindstrom makes her HGO debut in the thrilling title role and joins HGO Studio alumnus bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as Jokanaan. Eun Sun Kim returns to conduct as HGO principal guest conductor.
Sung in German with projected English translation.
| CAST | ||
| Salome | Lise Lindstrom | |
| Jokanaan | Ryan McKinny | |
| Herod | Chad Shelton | |
| Herodias | Susan Graham | |
| Narraboth | Dimitri Pittas | |
| Page | Leia Lensing | |
| First Nazarene | Anthony Robin Schneider | |
| Second Nazarene | Geoffrey Hahn | |
| First Soldier | Daniel Noyola | |
| Second Soldier | Nicholas Newton | |
| First Jew | Keith Jameson | |
| Second Jew | Jon Janacek | |
| Third Jew | Richard Trey Smagur | |
| Fourth Jew | Christopher Bozeka | |
| Fifth Jew | William Guanbo Su | |
| CREATIVE TEAM | ||
| Conductor | Eun Sun Kim, Lynn Wyatt Great Artist, 2019–20 | |
| Director | Francisco Negrin | |
| Associate Director | Angela Kleopatra Saroglou | |
| Set & Costume Designer | Louis Désiré | |
| Lighting Designer | Bruno Poet | |
| Projection Designer | Joan Rodón |
A production of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía of Valencia, 2010
Grand Underwriter: Drs. Elizabeth Grimm and Jack A. Roth
