Salome

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan, German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production: Claus Guth
Set Designer: Etienne Pluss
Costume Designer: Ursula Kudrna
Lighting Designer: Olaf Freese
Projection Designer: rocafilm/Roland Horvath
Choreographer: Sommer Ulrickson
Dramaturg: Yvonne Gebauer