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A brilliant new Salome launches Zurich Opera's season

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Reviewed at Opernhaus, Zurich on 12 September 2021
Strauss R., Salome
Zurich Opera
Simone Young, Conductor
Andreas Homoki, Director
Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer
Mechthild Seipel, Costume Designer
Franck Evin, Lighting Designer
Claus Spahn, Dramaturgy
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Herodes
Michaela Schuster, Herodias
Elena Stikhina, Salome
Kostas Smoriginas, Jochanaan
Mauro Peter, Narraboth
Ilya Altukhov, 1st Nazarene
Cheyne Davidson, 2nd Nazarene
Valeriy Murga, 1st Soldier
Alexander Fritze, 2nd Soldier
Stanislav Vorobyov, 5th Jew
Oleg Davydof, 5th Jew
Flurin Caduff, 5th Jew
Andrew Owens, 4th Jew
Luis Magallanes, 4th Jew
Yi-An Chen, 4th Jew
Iain Milne, 1st Jew
Riccardo Botta, 1st Jew
Diego Silva, 1st Jew
Siena Licht Miller, Herodias' Page
Henri Bernard Guizirian, Cappadocian
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