Salome

Synopsis

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1997 Staged for the Royal Opera, Luc Bondy’s Salome is a terrifying study of a family of degenerates. Never decadent, it is about decay. Spare and severe, it is staged in close focus in the bowels of Herod’s palace, with every small exchange of his monstrous family spotlit in a dismal and cavernous space. The characterisations of Catherine Malfitano, Bryn Terfel, Kenneth Riegel and Anja Silja are exceptionally powerful. Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi draws every strand and fleck of colour from Strauss’s cauldron of a score. (Sung in German)

Additional Info

• No: R0684
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi
• Production year: 1997
• Run time: 01:50:00
• Producers: RM Arts/BBC/The Decca Record Company/ZDF-Arte/RTE/ABC Australia