Salome
Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes ca.
Drama in one act
Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann
Teatro alla Scala Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
| Conductor |
Axel Kober (14, 17, 24, 31 Jan.) Michael Güttler (20, 27 Jan.) |
| Staging | Damiano Michieletto |
| Sets | Paolo Fantin |
| Costumes | Carla Teti |
| Lights | Alessandro Carletti |
| Choreography | Thomas Wilhelm |
| revived by | Erika Rombaldoni |
CAST |
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|---|---|
| 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 |
| Fünf Juden | Matthäus Schmidlechner, Matthias Stier, Patrick Vogel, Patrik Reiter, Horst Lamnek |
| Zwei Nazarener | Jiří Rajniš, Sung-Hwan Damien Park* |
| Zwei Soldaten | Alexander Milev, Bastian Thomas Kohl |
| Ein Kappadozier | Matías Moncada* |
| Ein Sklave | Hyun-Seo Davide Park* |
* Soloist of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Staged exclusively for the television broadcast in 2021, Damiano Michieletto’s production of Salome finally meets a live audience with Axel Kober and Michael Güttler on the podium. 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.
Due to illness Zubin Mehta has to withdrawn from Salome.
