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Salome in Vienna is big on decibels, but short on detail

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Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 21 September 2017
Strauss R., Salome
Vienna State Opera
Simone Young, Conductor
Boleslaw Barlog, Director
Jürgen Rose, Set Designer
Gun-Brit Barkmin, Salome
Iris Vermillion, Herodias
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Herodes
Željko Lučić, Jochanaan
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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