The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live performance transmissions, will show Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome” at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 17, in the Sinnott Family – Bank of Utica Auditorium at Munson in Downtown Utica.
Tickets are $24 for Munson Members, $30 for the general public, and $15 for students and can be purchased by calling 315-797-0055, coming to the Munson welcome desk, or visiting munson.art/metlive.
The story of this incendiary and powerful opera is derived from a brief biblical account: A young princess of Judea dances for her stepfather Herod and chooses as her reward the head of the prophet John the Baptist. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. From the opening measure, Strauss’s score announces itself as exotic, iconoclastic, and thoroughly compelling.
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performance, and headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
The Met: Live in HD series will conclude its season at Munson with “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by Gioachino Rossini at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 31.
“The Met: Live in HD” at Munson is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D.
“The Met: Live in HD” series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital Support is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. “The Met: Live in HD” series is supported by Rolex.
For more information on each performance and to purchase tickets, visit munson.art/metlive.
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