Strauss: Salome
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It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2008-10-11
Runtime: 106 mins
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete
Writer: Hedwig Lachmann
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Music, Drama
Original title: Strauss: Salome
Production Companies: The Metropolitan Opera, Sony Classical
Production Countries:
Cast
Karita Mattila
Ildikó Komlósi
Joseph Kaiser
Kim Begley
Juha Uusitalo
Lucy Schaufer
Keith Miller
Richard Berstein
David Won
Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis
Allan Glassman
Mark Schowalter
Adam Klein
John Easterlin
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