Strauss: Salome 15 years old

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

Credits

Strauss: Salome Cast

Name	Character
Joseph Kaiser He was 30, now 46 years old
Kim Begley
Karita Mattila She was 48, now 63 years old

Strauss: Salome Crew

Name	Department