Event listing: Salome | Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre | Event is in the past

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Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney, New South Wales, 1225, Australia

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Programme

Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)

Performers

Opera Australia
Johannes Fritzsch	Conductor
Gale Edwards	Director
Opera Australia Orchestra
John Pickering	Tenor	Herodes
Jacqueline Dark	Mezzo-soprano	Herodias
Cheryl Barker	Soprano	Salome
John Wegner	Baritone	Jochanaan
David Corcoran	Tenor	Narraboth

Reviews of Salome, Op.54 directed by Gale Edwards

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Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, March 2019

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Salome: the greatest Strauss tone poem?

Erica Miner, 24th April

A look at the succès de scandale that was Strauss first operatic hit, Salome, placing it in the context of his early tone poems Don Juan and Death and Transfiguration.

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Heady stuff: A visceral production of Salome at Sydney Opera House

David Larkin, 12th October

Salome was a huge, scandalous success at its 1905 première, and stagings of this, Richard Strauss’ third opera, have continued to shock audiences over the past century. This is hardly to be wondered at: after all, the title character’s final monologue ends with her kissing the severed head of John the Baptist, whom she has had executed for spurning her advances.

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