Metropolitan Opera: Salome rated (12A AL)

• 135mins | rated (12A AL)

Met Music Director Yannick Né zet-Sé guin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s

one-act tragedy, which will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas

worldwide. 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.