Richard Strauss
Salome
Opera in one act, in German, with Hungarian an English surtitles
Salome is the only biblical figure of whom we have a portrait, as there are silver coins that depict her face. Even in its current concert version, Richard Strauss’s full-length opera in one act is rated R due to it being a case of qualified necrophilia. Oscar Wilde wrote the play in French while in exile, and its effects are multiplied with the tools used by Strauss, which focus on Salome instead of the weak-willed Herodes, Tetrach of Judea. The new theatrical production is being prepared as a concert performance meant for autumn 2020, for the time of the International Eucharistic Congress. The set even utilises the results of the research conducted by Egyptologist Gyözö Vörös in Jordan, as it was the Hungarian scientist who found the tetrarch’s palace on Machaerus. The Lithuanian Vida Miknevičiūtė will sing the titular role, whose career is taking off with astronomical speed.
General cast
- Conductor
- Balázs Kocsár
- Herodes
- Attila Fekete
- Herodias
- Gyöngyi Lukács
- Salome
- Vida Miknevičiūtė
- Jokanaan
- Károly Szemerédy
- Narraboth
- Péter Balczó
- Page
- Andrea Szántó
- First Jew
- István Horváth
- Second Jew
- Zoltán Megyesi
- Third Jew
- Tivadar Kiss
- Fourth Jew
- János Szerekován
- Fifth Jew
- Bence Pataki
- First Nazarene
- Kolos Kováts
- Second Nazarene
- Barna Bartos univ. stud.
- First soldier
- Róbert Rezsnyák
- Second soldier
- Ferenc Endrész univ. stud.
- A Cappadocian
- Gergely Halász univ.stud.
- A slave
- Péter Kiss
Credits
- Libretto after the play of the same title by Oscar Wilde by
- Richard Strauss
- Director
- András Almási-Tóth