
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Sergei Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

The premiere of the one-act opera by Richard Strauss Salome took place at the Royal Opera Theatre of Dresden on the 9th of December 1905. It was performed under the leadership of conductor Ernst von Schuch by the orchestra, that was enlarged to one hundred and twenty musicians, and excellent cast, amongst which were famous Wagnerian singers Marie Wittich (Salome), Karel Burian (Herodes) and Karl Perron (Jochanaan). The author considered it to be an outstanding performance.
A scandalous reputation of the play by Oscar Wilde (1891), which became the foundation of the libretto, written by the composer himself, fuelled interest in the new opera even further. By 1906, Salome had appeared on the stages of sixteen European opera theatres, including Leipzig, Cologne, Milan, Turin… A year later – in New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. The Austrian premiere, held in 1906 in Graz under the direction of the author, gathered the best representatives of the music world: in the auditorium amongst other important names were Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.
Premiered on February 25, 2021.
Coproduction with Metropolitan Opera.
Libretto by the composer after the play of the same name by Oscar Wilde in Hedwig Lachmann’ translation
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Narraboth and his men describe the beauty of the Princess Salome, who lives together with her mother Herodias in the house of her stepfather, the ruler Herod. Again and again, Salome hears the voice of Jokanaan. He prophecizes the overthrow of the existing order.
Salome is attracted by his voice and by the things he says. She demands to see Jokanaan and to speak with him. She is allowedto see him - against all the instructions. He speaks to her, and he also speaks to her stepfather, who fears him, and to her mother, who ridicules him. He continues his attack on Salome's parents, and his voice penetrates the isolated structure consisting of father, mother and child.