Salome

Place: Teatro Regio Torino. Organizer: Teatro Regio Torino Salome | Richard Strauss The biblical episode is well known: during a banquet, Princess Salome dances for Herod and he promises her anything in return; the girl asks for and obtains the head of John the Baptist. In 1891, Oscar Wilde drew a play from the story, enriched with new elements, which was very successful in Germany and consolidated the image of Salome as a combination of innocence and perversion. Richard Strauss, in search of a subject for a new opera, did not let it slip away and set Wilde's text (translated into German) to music as it was, with only a few slight modifications. One year after the scandal of the world premiere in Dresden in 1905, Strauss conducted the first performance of Salome outside the German-speaking countries at Teatro Regio, which now presents it again conducted by Axel Kober, back in Italy after having already conducted it successfully at Teatro alla Scala in 2023. Kornél Mundruczó, a film director active for a decade also in opera, signs a surrealist production set in the Trump era, with soprano Johanni van Oostrum in the title role surrounded by a company of singers of pr