Film

Salomé (Opéra de Paris)

2022 · 1h 40m · Music

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod who is afraid of him. Obsessed by this enigmatic and virtuous man, Salome is ready to do anything to possess him, dead or alive. Drawing on Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play of the same name, in 1905 Richard Strauss produced the work that was to ensure his status as Wagner’s successor in the history of German opera. A dazzling hour and forty minutes, decadent in its very essence, which, for her debut at the Paris Opera, Lydia Steier treats as a dystopia in which amorality rules.

Elza van den Heever

Salomé

Karita Mattila

Herodias

Iain Paterson

Jochanaan

Tansel Akzeybek

Narraboth

John Daszak

Herodes

Katharina Magiera

Page of Herodias

Matthaus Schmidlechner

First Jew

Éric Huchet

Second Jew

Maciej Kwasnikowski

Third Jew

Mathias Vidal

Fourth Jew

Sava Vemic

Fifth Jew

Luke Stoker

First Nazarene

Yiorgo Ioannou

Second Nazarene

Dominic Philip Barberi

First soldier

Bastian Thomas Kohl

Second soldier

Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

A Cappadocian

• François-René MartinDirector
• Oscar WildeWriter
• Hedwig LachmannWriter

Release date

October 27, 2022

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Music