Vienna's new Salome: orchestral excellence, vocal virtuosity

Malin Byström (Salome) and Pablo Delgado (Executioner)

Ilja Kazakov (First Soldier), Benedikt Missmann (Video), Anna Chesnova (Young Salome), Malin Byström

Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Jana Radda (Young Salome) and Malin Byström (Salome)

Malin Byström (Salome)

Michaela Schuster (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herodes) and ensemble

Por George Jahn, 06 febrero 2023

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“Strauss... wanted a Salome with an ‘Isolde voice’ and the Swedish lyric soprano more than delivered”

Crítica hecha desde Wiener Staatsoper, Viena el 4 febrero 2023

Strauss R., Salomé

Wiener Staatsoper

Philippe Jordan, Dirección

Cyril Teste, Dirección de escena

Valérie Grall, Diseño de escena

Marie La Rocca, Diseño de vestuario

Julien Boizard, Diseño de iluminación

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez, Videoarte

Malin Byström, Salome

Michaela Schuster, Herodias

Gerhard Siegel, Herodes

Daniel Jenz, Narraboth

Wolfgang Koch, Jochanaan

Patricia Nolz, Herodias' Page

Thomas Ebenstein, 1st Jew

Andrea Giovannini, 2nd Jew

Carlos Osuna, 3rd Jew

Robert Bartneck, 4th Jew

Evgeny Solodovnikov, 5th Jew

Attila Mókus, 2nd Nazarene

Wolfgang Bankl, 1st Soldier

Clemens Unterreiner, 2nd Soldier

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George Jahn

George Jahn is the former Vienna bureau chief of The Associated Press. During his 35-year career at the global news organization, he covered wars, politics... and opera, reviewing productions at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Bayreuth Festival and other houses in Austria and Germany. He has also written for Opera Now and International Piano magazines in London. Those he has interviewed include Matthias Goerne, Vesselina Kasarova, Thomas Hampson and Mariss Jansons. George holds or shares awards for his reporting on U.N. affairs and for his coverage of the Bosnian war. A Canadian/Hungarian citizen, he splits his time between residences in Vienna and Budapest.

A new Salome at the Wiener Staatsoper: orchestral excellence, vocal virtuosity