Event listing: Salome | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)

Performers

The Royal Opera
Andris Nelsons	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Es Devlin	Set Designer		2012 May 31
Angela Denoke	Soprano	Salome
Rosalind Plowright	Soprano	Herodias
Stig Andersen	Tenor	Herodes
Egils Siliņš	Baritone	Jochanaan
Will Hartmann	Tenor	Narraboth

Reviews of Salome, Op.54 directed by Sir David McVicar

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, September 2022

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, January 2018

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, July 2010

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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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Wilde Headonism: Strauss’s Salome at the Royal Opera House

David Fay, 5th June

Few live events could offer a more intense, visceral, grotesque experience than witnessing a performance of Oscar Wilde’s play Salome translated and adapted for the opera stage by Hermann Lachmann and set to music by Richard Strauss.

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