
Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast

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