Event listing: Salome | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Tue 6 Jul 2010 at 20:00

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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
Hartmut Haenchen	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
Angela Denoke	Soprano	Salome
Johan Reuter	Baritone	Jochanaan
Gerhard Siegel	Tenor	Herodes
Irina Mishura	Mezzo-soprano	Herodias
Andrew Staples	Tenor	Narraboth

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

*****

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, September 2022

****1

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, January 2018

****1

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, May 2012

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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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Angela Denoke sings Salome at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 7th July

Over a hundred years after its première, Richard Strauss's opera Salome retains its ability to shock. The opera was adapted from Oscar Wilde's retelling of the biblical tale, in which Herod's daughter demands and receives the head of the prophet Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver charger.

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