Met Music Director Yannick Nezet Seguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss s one act tragedy which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the companys first new production of the work in 20 years Claus Guth one of Europes leading opera directors gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salomes lecherous stepfather King Herod American mezzo soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife Herodias and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Ticket holders are invited to a pre-opera talk by Leslie Gerber 30 minutes prior to curtain time in the theater.
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