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Elisabet Strid makes an outstanding debut in new production of Salome in Leipzig

By John Johnston, 18 June 2017
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“With the Gewandhaus Orchester in the pit, Schirmer conducted the opera like a vast symphonic poem”
Reviewed at Oper Leipzig, Leipzig on 17 June 2017
Programme
Strauss R., Salome
Performers
Oper Leipzig
Ulf Schirmer, Conductor
Aron Stiehl, Director
rosalie, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Elisabet Strid, Salome
Tuomas Pursio, Jochanaan
Karin Lovelius, Herodias
Michael Weinius, Herodes
Sergey Pisarev, Narraboth
Sandra Maxheimer, Herodias' Page
Rouwen Huther, 1st Jew
Patrick Vogel, 2nd Jew
Tyler Clarke, 3rd Jew
Martin Petzold, 4th Jew
Sejong Chang, 5th Jew
Julian Orlishausen, 1st Nazarene
David Fischer, 2nd Nazarene
Christian Tschelebiew, 1st Soldier
Jürgen Kurth, 2nd Soldier
Artur Mateusz Garbas, Cappadocian
Michael Röger, Lighting Designer
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Oper Leipzig Chorus
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John Johnston
John Johnston

John Johnston was a contributor to Bachtrack 2017-19. John was a true gentleman and lifelong opera "nut" who frequently travelled across Europe to catch performances, making regular pilgrimages to the Bayreuth Festival among others. His supreme knowledge and appreciation of voices meant he took to reviewing like the proverbial duck to water. We enjoyed his style and his insatiable appetite for catching rare operas and new productions wherever he could.