Grotesque and gripping: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen unveils a new Salome

Thomas Blondelle (Herodes) and Astrid Kessler (Salome)

Astrid Kessler (Salome) and Kostas Smoriginas (Jochanaan)

Astrid Kessler (Salome), Angela Denoke (Herodias), Thomas Blondelle (Herodes) and ensemble

Thomas Blondelle (Herodes), Angela Denoke (Herodias) and Astrid Kessler (Salome)

Angela Denoke (Herodias), Thomas Blondelle (Herodes) and ensemble

Astrid Kessler (Salome) and Kostas Smoriginas (Jochanaan)

Por Mark Pullinger, 29 diciembre 2024

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“as the biblical debauchery climaxes... Salome's acolytes quaff Champagne and munch popcorn”

Crítica hecha desde Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Amberes el 29 diciembre 2024

Strauss R., Salomé

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Alejo Pérez, Dirección

Ersan Mondtag, Dirección de escena, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Sascha Zauner, Diseño de iluminación

Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Astrid Kessler, Salome

Angela Denoke, Herodias

Florian Stern, Herodes

Kostas Smoriginas, Jochanaan

Denzil Delaere, Narraboth

Linsey Coppens, Herodias' Page, A slave

Reuben Mbonambi, 1st Nazarene, Cappadocian

Leander Carlier, 2nd Nazarene

Igor Bakan, 1st Soldier

Marcel Brunner, 2nd Soldier, 5th Jew

Daniel Arnaldos, 1st Jew

Hugo Kampschreur, 2nd Jew

Timothy Veryser, 3rd Jew

Hyunduk Kim, 4th Jew

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Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Grotesque and gripping: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen unveils a new Salome in Antwerp