Salome at The State Opera

Dates: (11/14/2015 - 12/13/2015 )

Theatre:

The State Opera

Wilsonova 4
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Phone: +420 224 901 448

Tickets: 390.00 K? - 1 290.00 K?

Running Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, no intermission.

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According to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Judean Princess Salome danced for her stepfather Herod Antipas and in return asked for the head of the prophet John the Baptist to be brought on a silver platter. The biblical temptress has inspired a number of painters (Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rubens), writers (Heine, Flaubert) and composers (Massenet), yet Salome was above all immortalised in art owing to a play by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and an opera by Richard Strauss (1864-1949), whose extremely dramatic work, fraught with eroticism, met with thunderous ovations at its premiere at the Hofoper in Dresden on 9 December 1905. Within the next two years, Salome was staged by some 50 opera houses. Nevertheless, there were exceptions. Gustav Mahler called the opera a work of a genius, yet he was not allowed to present it at the Hofoper in Vienna, since the sensors deemed it “perverse”. New York’s Metropolitan Opera did stage the piece (on 22 January 1907), yet the public umbrage was so immense that it had to be withdrawn from the repertoire immediately. The new Prague production was undertaken by the distinguished Polish film and stage director Mariusz Treli?ski, who set the story in a contemporary interior, creating a suggestive and oppressive atmosphere of family relationships verging on disaster.

Authors

Oscar Wilde
Yael Farber

Cast and Creative team for Salome at The State Opera

Musical preparation: Heiko Mathias Förster
Conductor: Ji?í Štrunc
Stage director: Mariusz Treli?ski
Sets: Boris Kudli?ka
Costumes: Marek Adamski
Light-design: Felice Ross
Video: Bartek Macias
Choreography: Tomasz Wygoda
Dramaturgy: Piotr Gruszczynski

Herodes

Jacek Laszczkowski

Herodias

Veronika Hajnová

Salome

Gun-Brit Barkmin

Jochanaan

Miguelangelo Cavalcanti

Narraboth

Zbigniew Malak

Herodias's Page

Št?pánka Pu?álková

First Jew

Josef Moravec

Second Jew

Aleš Vorá?ek

Third Jew

Václav Sibera

Fourth Jew

Václav Barth

Fifth Jew

Ivo Hrachovec

First Nazarene

Ivo Hrachovec

Second Nazarene

Václav Sibera

First Soldier

Miloš Horák

Second Soldier

Pawe? Ko?odziej

Cappadocian

Pawe? Ko?odziej

Slave

Lenka Pavlovi?

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