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SALOME Vienna 2023 Malin Byström, Wolfgang Koch, Michaela Schuster
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Salome
- Composer: Strauss Richard
- Libretto: Hedwig Lachmann, Oscar Wilde Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria
- Recorded: February 12, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Malin Byström, Wolfgang Koch, Michaela Schuster, Gerhard Siegel, Daniel Jenz, Patricia Nolz
- Conductor: Philippe Jordan
- Orchestra: Staatsopernorchester Wien
- Choreographer: Magdalena Chowaniec
- Stage Director: Cyril Teste
- Stage Designer: Valérie Grall
- Costume Designer: Marie La Rocca
- Lighting Designer: Julien Boizard
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Staatsoper Play, Unitel
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs, frsubs, itsubs, essubs, jpsubs, othersubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Wiener Staatsoper:
Synopsis: In Salome, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, Strauss confronts a princess who has grown up without a father and is harassed by her stepfather with a captive prophet who recognizes in her not the desirable young woman but the traumatized child. When Jochanaan, desired by Salome, rejects the young princess, she gets her stepfather Herod to have him beheaded.
Music: The hundred-minute one-act play glows like feverish delusions, the composer boldly exploded both sound and moral concepts of his time. To this day, the music fascinates with its enormous imagery, high emotionality and sharp, sometimes lurid figure drawing. Strauss not only portrays the decadently oppressive atmosphere of the royal court with an incredible orchestration art, which Salome’s childhood has on his conscience, but also shows in a spellbinding way a differentiated diversification of the external and internal psychological events.
Direction : In his Salome direction, Cyril Teste wants to make Salome’s energy and heartbeat tangible, bring her traumata to life and, quite fundamentally, tell the family story of a powerful dynasty whose inner mechanisms must bring about what comes at the end: destruction.