Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Salome
Date and Time
Saturday May 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
Saturday, May 17 at 1 PM
Location
Shalin Liu Performance Center
37 Main Street
Rockport, MA 01966
Fees/Admission
Tickets: $30, $27
(Fees may apply)
Contact Information
978-546-7391
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Description
By Richard Strauss
Pre-opera talk by Andrew Shryock, 12 PM
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
