Met Live Opera: Salome

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sat, May 17, 2025 10:00 AM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Wed, May 21, 2025 3:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Met Live Opera
Release Year:2024-2025 Season
Run Time:2 hours, 15 minutes
Met Company
Conductor:Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production:Claus Guth
Set Designer:Etienne Pluss
Costume Designer:Ursula Kudrna
Lighting Designer:Olaf Freese
rocafilm/Roland Horvath (Projection Designer)
Choreographer:Sommer Ulrickson
Yvonne Gebauer (Dramaturg)

Description


Strauss’s
Salome
NEW PRODUCTION


Live: Saturday, May 17 at 10:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, May 21 at 3:00 p.m.


There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.


Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle DeYoung (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan)


Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin 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 company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s 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 Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.