Strauss: Salome

Strauss: Salome 2008

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

  • Released: 2008-10-11
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • Genre: Music, Drama
  • Stars: Karita Mattila, Joseph Kaiser, Kim Begley, Richard Berstein, David Won, Mark Schowalter, John Easterlin, Morris Robinson, Ildikó Komlósi, Juha Uusitalo, Lucy Schaufer, Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis, Allan Glassman, Donovan Singletary, Reginald Braithwaite, James Courtney, Keith Miller
  • Director: Barbara Willis Sweete