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Salome State Opera Vienna - Wien Fri 19.Mar 2027 replace me !Salome State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 23.Mar 2027 replace me !Salome State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 28.Mar 2027 replace me !Salome State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 31.Mar 2027 replace me !Salome grows up in a terrifying, horrific and deeply hurtful environment.
The ascetic prophet Jochanaan, who preaches repentance, seems to offer her an escape from this world. However, he rejects her longing. Full of immature anger, she demands his head. When Salome kisses the prophet's bloody mouth, her stepfather Herod orders her to be killed.
»I don't know what I'm going to say before the actual rehearsals start. Because that depends on the actors. They give me the energy from which my performance emerges. I'm just the cartographer, it's the singers who enter the thicket of the forest and penetrate it. You also have to allow for chance. Chance is a great dramaturge. Now, three weeks after the start of rehearsals, I am - perhaps - beginning to understand. Theater is not a picture, but something alive. You can only understand it by experiencing it.« (Cyril Teste)
For this production, we recommend a minimum age of 14.
»An essential aspect of this work, which you literally notice at first glance, is the large, widely differentiated orchestral apparatus. This enables an incredible palette of shades and the entire breadth of sound techniques. Thanks to this orchestra, Strauss creates a great atmospheric magic; just imagine the sultry evening mood, the »oriental« coloring, the sound images. He uses the celesta or harps, for example, but also many solo strings, a rich selection of different wind instruments, especially clarinets - a whole battalion - and also divided strings, some of which use different techniques. Last but not least, there is an incredible percussion section, including the glockenspiel and the very important xylophone. And Strauss tries to draw new timbres out of these instruments, ones that didn't exist before.« (Philippe Jordan)The opera director Gustav Mahler, who was so important for Vienna, was deeply enthusiastic about Salome (»It is a very ingenious, very powerful work that is definitely one of the most significant works of our time! There is a volcano working and living under a lot of rubble, an underground fire - not just fireworks!«) and wanted to bring the work to the Vienna Court Opera. But the censors thwarted his plans and banned the opera due to »moral« concerns. It was not until 1918 that Salome celebrated its premiere at the Vienna State Opera.Let yourself be carried away into the world of the antique Greece at the Vienna State Opera and book tickets at viennaticket.at.
(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
