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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Royal Opera House, Opus Arte
Keywords
- opera
- seduction
- based on play or musical
- severed head
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Top Cast
Nadja Michael as Salomé
Michael Volle as Jokanaan
Michaela Schuster as Herodias
Thomas Moser as Herod
Joseph Kaiser as Narraboth
Christian Sist as First soldier
Alan Ewing as Second soldier
Daniela Sindram as Herodias's page
Top Crew
Jonathan Haswell · Director
Hedwig Lachmann · Writer
Richard Strauss · Composer
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