Showing at Firstsite Cinema – MET Opera Live: Salome (TBC)!

MET Opera Live: Salome is derived from a brief biblical account. A young princess of Judea dances for her stepfather Herod. She chooses as her reward the head of the prophet John the Baptist.

This subject captured the imaginations of generations of visual artists, but its full possibilities were perhaps best realized in Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy. This was banned from performance in several countries.

Strauss’s score combines the grandeur of Wagner’s epics with the focus and emotional punch of the short Italian verismo operas.

*Timings subject to change.

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