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Opera

Salome

Playing from 13 May to 08 June
Music
Richard Strauss
Libretto
Hedwig Lachmann after Oscar Wilde's play
Conductors
Alan Gilbert/John Fiore
Director
Sofia Adrian Jupither
Set design
Lars-Åke Thessman
Costume design & make up
Maria Geber
Light design
Linus Fellbom
Dramaturge
Katarina Aronsson
Choreography
Roger Lybeck
Language
Performed in German with Swedish surtitles.
Running time
Approx. 1 hour 45 minutes. No interval.

Strauss' SALOME returns to the Royal Swedish Opera


Salome is used to getting everything she wants, including men. But there is one man she cannot have, the captive, deeply pious John the Baptist. The more he rejects her, the more her obsession grows. Salome’s stepfather, Herod, is obsessed too, by his stepdaughter. He offers her anything she wants if she dances for him. Salome dances, and then she demands her prize – the head of John the Baptist on a silver plate.

A dysfunctional family and forbidden desire are served when Richard Strauss’s brutal Salome, based on Oscar Wilde’s drama, returns – this time with Elisabet Strid in the leading role. This was director Sofia Adrian Jupither’s opera debut in 2013. SvD commended it as «a well crafted psychological chamber play» and an «impressive debut». The journal Opera had «every reason to be delighted with this revival» and wrote that «the audience can feel privileged over a production that in every way achieves world class performance in the pit.»


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Performance dates

The cast with reservation for changes
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Cast

Herodes
Jochanaan
Narraboth
The Page of Herodias
A JEW
A JEW
A Nazarene
A Nazarene
A soldier
A Soldier
A Cappadocian
A slave
SLAVES (SILENT ROLES)
Agnes Thorell Madeleine Wallgren Vickery
A SOLDIER (SILENT ROLE)
Oscar Rosberg

Royal Swedish Orchestra

* Trainee from Opera - Stockholm University of the Arts

Want to know the cast in this production, with dates for alternating artists?
Here you find an excerpt from the performance program (in Swedish) »
Please note that the program is made before the first performance date and that any changes after that are not visible.
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