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Salome

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Ph. Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano
From 14 to 31 January 2023
Richard Strauss

Running Time: 1 hour 40 minutes

Drama in one act

Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann

 

Teatro alla Scala Production

Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Conductor Zubin Mehta
Staging Damiano Michieletto
Sets Paolo Fantin
Costumes Carla Teti
Lights Alessandro Carletti
Choreography Thomas Wilhelm

CAST
Herodes Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Herodias Linda Watson
Salome Vida Miknevičiūtė
Jochanaan Michael Volle (14, 17, 20, 24, 27 Jan.) / Tomasz Konieczny (31 Jan.)
Narraboth Sebastian Kohlhepp
Ein Page der Herodias Lioba Braun

Staged exclusively for the television broadcast in 2021, Damiano Michieletto’s production of Salome finally meets a live audience with Zubin Mehta returning to the podium: indeed the great conductor made his debut in the La Scala orchestra pit precisely with this title in 1974. The rigorous geometrical scenes by Paolo Fantin, overhung by an ill-boding black moon, are populated with references to symbolist painting, becoming the theatre of a murky tragedy of childhood. Vida Miknevičiūtė debuts at La Scala in the title role, while Michael Volle endows Jochanaan with his powerful voice.