Salome - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Salome
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24.02.2019 , Sunday
18:00
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Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany
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Music drama in a lift
Music and libretto by Richard Strauss
after the drama "Salome" by Oscar Wilde
in the translation by Hedwig Lachmann
First performance on December 9, 1905 in Dresden
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 24, 2016
In German with German and English surtitles
1 hour 45 minutes / No break
When "Salomé" by Oscar Wilde first appeared on stage in Paris in 1896, the author served a prison sentence in London for "gross immorality". In the United Kingdom and also in the German-speaking countries, only private performances of the scandal-ridden piece were possible. Such a visited Richard Strauss in 1902 in Max Reinhardt's "Little Theater" in Berlin. A year later, he decided to make Wildes text the basis of an opera character. The world premiere of SALOME 1905 in Dresden was a resounding success for the composer. He challenges the genre: an intoxicating and love-drunk music contrasts the most gruesome, most monstrous event.
The opera begins without foreplay, and we are catapulted directly into Salome's world. Salome lives in a perfect bourgeois world. She is the daughter of Herodias. With her she lives with her stepfather Herod - a powerful man in a man's world. And he has a very special relationship with his new daughter, the little princess. And she to him. In this family constellation, the child Salome grows up. And at night, when everyone else is sleeping, she imagines her own world. She takes up the fight with her new father, who intimidates her, who desires her, who plays with her. She wants to defeat this father, this man. She remembers her childhood and she watches herself playing: father, mother, child. This is a highly explosive world in which she dreams. Out of these dark dreams, Salome creates a figure in the night, an alternative to the world in which she finds herself. This being is Jochanaan. In the family game, he acts as the anti-father, as the weapon against the father, as Redeemer and Savior. And when the day dawns, Jochanaan sits at the table with father, mother and the martial child. Together with Jochanaan Salome will break up this order.
SALOME is the first work of Claus Guth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since 1999, when he staged CRONACA DEL LUOGO by Luciano Berio with great success at the Salzburg Festival, he is one of the most sought-after opera directors in the world. Salzburg, where he staged, among others, the "Da Ponte Trilogy" [with Anna Netrebko as Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO], Bayreuth [THE FLYING HOLLÄNDER 2003], Zurich, Milan, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresden and the Theater an der Vienna is one of his regular stops as well as the State Opera in the Schiller Theater.
Subject may change.
Music and libretto by Richard Strauss
after the drama "Salome" by Oscar Wilde
in the translation by Hedwig Lachmann
First performance on December 9, 1905 in Dresden
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 24, 2016
In German with German and English surtitles
1 hour 45 minutes / No break
When "Salomé" by Oscar Wilde first appeared on stage in Paris in 1896, the author served a prison sentence in London for "gross immorality". In the United Kingdom and also in the German-speaking countries, only private performances of the scandal-ridden piece were possible. Such a visited Richard Strauss in 1902 in Max Reinhardt's "Little Theater" in Berlin. A year later, he decided to make Wildes text the basis of an opera character. The world premiere of SALOME 1905 in Dresden was a resounding success for the composer. He challenges the genre: an intoxicating and love-drunk music contrasts the most gruesome, most monstrous event.
The opera begins without foreplay, and we are catapulted directly into Salome's world. Salome lives in a perfect bourgeois world. She is the daughter of Herodias. With her she lives with her stepfather Herod - a powerful man in a man's world. And he has a very special relationship with his new daughter, the little princess. And she to him. In this family constellation, the child Salome grows up. And at night, when everyone else is sleeping, she imagines her own world. She takes up the fight with her new father, who intimidates her, who desires her, who plays with her. She wants to defeat this father, this man. She remembers her childhood and she watches herself playing: father, mother, child. This is a highly explosive world in which she dreams. Out of these dark dreams, Salome creates a figure in the night, an alternative to the world in which she finds herself. This being is Jochanaan. In the family game, he acts as the anti-father, as the weapon against the father, as Redeemer and Savior. And when the day dawns, Jochanaan sits at the table with father, mother and the martial child. Together with Jochanaan Salome will break up this order.
SALOME is the first work of Claus Guth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since 1999, when he staged CRONACA DEL LUOGO by Luciano Berio with great success at the Salzburg Festival, he is one of the most sought-after opera directors in the world. Salzburg, where he staged, among others, the "Da Ponte Trilogy" [with Anna Netrebko as Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO], Bayreuth [THE FLYING HOLLÄNDER 2003], Zurich, Milan, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresden and the Theater an der Vienna is one of his regular stops as well as the State Opera in the Schiller Theater.
Subject may change.