Salome - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Musical drama in one act in German with Hungarian and English surtitles

Richard Strauss based his biblically themed opera Salome from 1893 on Oscar Wilde's play of the same name. Strauss's re-conception of this poetic - and at the time scandalously erotic - work, which was written in French while the Irish playwright was in exile in France, takes everything to extremes. With a great sense of drama, the composer created an unstoppable and extraordinarily weighty musical drama that was at the same time not free from sarcasm. For the first time in history, the backdrops are reconstructed rooms, copied from the original Herod's palace of Machaerus in modern Jordan, uncovered during excavations led by the Hungarian antiquity researcher Győző Vörös.


Conductor - Balázs Kocsár
Herod - Gerhard Siegel
Herodias - Gyöngyi Lukács
Salome - Annemarie Kremer
Jokanaan - Károly Szemerédy
Narraboth - Zoltán Nyári
Page - Viktoria Mester
First Jew - István Horváth
Second Jew - János Szerekován
Third Jew - Tivadar Kiss
Fourth Jew - Gergely Biri
Fifth Jew - Bence Pataki
First Nazarene - Kolos Kováts
Second Nazarene - Barna Bartos
First soldier - Lajos Geiger
Second soldier - András Kiss
A Cappadoker - Ferenc Endrész
A slave - Gábor Csiki


Subject to changes.