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Met Opera Live: Salome
Met Opera Live
by Richard Strauss
Sung in German with English subtitles
135’ (no interval) (TBC)
Met Music Director Yannick Ne´zet-Se´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.
6pm Full Price £14 Student £5 Under 26 £5
Swansea University
Singleton Campus
Swansea SA2 8PZ
Tue 20 May 2025