It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

Genres

Cast

Karita Mattila

Salome

Keith Miller

First soldier

Richard Berstein

Second soldier

John Easterlin

Fourth Jew

James Courtney

Fifth Jew