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Opera North’s Salome is still enticingly outrageous today

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Reviewed at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds on 19 April 2018
Strauss R., Salome (Concert performance)
Sir Richard Armstrong, Conductor
Jennifer Holloway, Salome
Katarina Karnéus, Herodias
Robert Hayward, Jochanaan
Arnold Bezuyen, Herodes
Oliver Johnston, Narraboth
Heather Lowe, Herodias' Page
Dean Robinson, 1st Nazarene
Alex Banfield, 2nd Nazarene
Richard Mosley-Evans, 1st Soldier
Jihoon Kim, 2nd Soldier, 5th Jew
Adrian Dwyer, 1st Jew
John Findon, 2nd Jew
Stuart Laing, 3rd Jew
Nicholas Watts, 4th Jew
Gordon Shaw, Cappadocian
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