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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.
18 Cast Members
Karita Mattila
Salome
Ildikó Komlósi
Herodias
Joseph Kaiser
Narraboth
Kim Begley
Herod
Juha Uusitalo
Jochanaan
Lucy Schaufer
The page
Keith Miller
First soldier
Richard Berstein
Second soldier
David Won
A Cappadocian
Reveka Evangelia Mavrovitis
A slave
Allan Glassman
First Jew
Mark Schowalter
Second Jew
Adam Klein
Third Jew
John Easterlin
Fourth Jew
James Courtney
Fifth Jew
Morris Robinson
First Nazarene
Donovan Singletary
Second Nazarine
Reginald Braithwaite
Executioner
