Salome

Claus Guth banishes all orientalism and looks at his title heroine with a dissecting, psychoanalytical eye.

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  Salome – Jennifer Holloway als Salome, Maire Therese Carmack als Ein Page

• Salome – Jennifer Holloway als Salome

• Salome – Jennifer Holloway als Salome, Mihails Culpajev als Narraboth, Jordan Shanahan als Jochanaan

• Salome – Jennifer Holloway als Salome, Jordan Shanahan als Jochanaan

• Salome – u. a. Jennifer Holloway als Salome

Salome descends into the abysses of her youth, in which abuses by her stepfather have dug deep into her soul. And from these depths she creates her saviour Jochanaan, with whom she can take up the fight against her hated father.

Long after the Paris world premiere in 1896 Oscar Wilde’s tragedy “Salomé” remained a thorn in the flesh of the establishment across Europe. In Wilhelminian Germany and the Danube Monarchy, too, official art adjudicators considered the subject “repulsive” and the text “an insult to morality”. In the minds of the guardians of public morals the New Testament story of Herod’s daughter was as ill-suited to the stage as it was to pictorial representation, which was experiencing a boom at the time. Salomé’s stepfather, Herod, the Roman’s client king of Judea, Galilee and Samaria who is said to have ordered the massacre of the innocents around Bethlehem, persuades her to dance for him. Encouraged by her mother, she demands to be given the head of John the Baptist as a reward.

Oscar Wilde's story is now being performed in a new interpretation at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Official disapproval meant that the performance of Wilde’s play that Richard Strauss saw in 1902 in Max Reinhardt’s “Kleines Theater” in Berlin was a private function. The composer, who was already in possession of the beginnings of an opera libretto in verse form, resolved to use Hedwig Lachmann’s prose text as the basis for his composition. His SALOME was one of the first literature opern of the 20th century and reflected a number of operatic preferences of the time such as the predilection for one-act works and for exotic, oriental subjects. A literature oper is an opera whose lyrics are lifted directly, albeit sometimes in shortened and rearranged form, from a pre-existing play.

Audiences can look forward to the first collaboration between Claus Guth and the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Claus Goth, an internationally feted director since his Marriage of figaro in Salzburg in 2006, is taking on his first production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. His Salome focuses on the interior motivations of the characters and explores the power dynamic within the house of Herod. Will Salomé manage to break free from her hellish domestic situation?

Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson; Staging by Claus Guth; With Thomas Blondelle, Evelyn Herlitzius, Olesya Golovneva, Jordan Shanahan, Kieran Carrel, Annika Schlicht a. o.

1 hour 45 minutes / No break

Artists/Collaborators: Keri-Lynn Wilson (Musikalische Leitung), Claus Guth (Inszenierung), Muriel Gerstner (Bühne, Kostüme), Olaf Freese (Licht), Sommer Ulrickson (Choreografie), Thomas Blondelle (Herodes), Evelyn Herlitzius (Herodias), Olesya Golovneva (Salome), Jordan Shanahan (Jochanaan), Kieran Carrel (Narraboth), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Ein Page), Chance Jonas-O'Toole (1. Jude), Thomas Cilluffo (2. Jude), Jörg Schörner (3. Jude), Burkhard Ulrich (4. Jude), Gerard Farreras (5. Jude), Joel Allison (1. Nazarener), Geon Kim (2. Nazarener), Andrew Harris (1. Soldat), Tobias Kehrer (2. Soldat), Stephen Marsh (Ein Cappadocier), Thomas Cilluffo (Ein Sklave), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester), Opernballett der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Ballett)

Runtime: Sat, 08/03/2025 to Fri, 14/03/2025

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 08/March/2025 18:00 (1 more date)
• Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Price from €32.10

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