Salomé

Salomé

2008 en 111 minutes

Rating: 4

Plot

David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has suggestions of Nazi Germany. Strauss’s ravishing and voluptuous score adds to the sexual alchemy that is conjured by an international cast led by Nadja Michael in the title role.

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Cast

Nadja Michael

Nadja Michael

Salomé

Michael Volle

Michael Volle

Jokanaan

Michaela Schuster

Michaela Schuster

Herodias

Thomas Moser

Thomas Moser

Herod

Joseph Kaiser

Joseph Kaiser

Narraboth

Christian Sist

Christian Sist

First soldier

Alan Ewing

Alan Ewing

Second soldier

Daniela Sindram

Daniela Sindram

Herodias's page

Vuyani Mlinde

Vuyani Mlinde

A Cappadocian

Pumeza Matshikiza

Pumeza Matshikiza

A slave

Adrian Thompson

Adrian Thompson

First Jew

Martyn Hill

Martyn Hill

Second Jew

Hubert Francis

Hubert Francis

Third Jew

Park Ji-min

Park Ji-min

Fourth Jew

Jeremy White

Jeremy White

Fifth Jew

Iain Paterson

Iain Paterson

First Nazarene

Julian Tovey

Julian Tovey

Second Nazarene

Duncan Meadows

Duncan Meadows

Naaman (Executioner)

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