Met Opera 2024-25: Salome
NZ release date: 07/08/25
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium 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.
COMPOSER: Richard Strauss
CONDUCTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
PRODUCTION: Claus Guth
SET DESIGNER: Etienne Pluss
COSTUME DESIGNER: Ursula Kudrna
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Olaf Freese
PROJECTION DESIGNER: rocafilm/Roland Horvath
CHOREOGRAPHER: Sommer Ulrickson
DRAMATURG: Yvonne Gebauer
CAST: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
SHOWING AT THESE
NZ CINEMAS:
Cathay Cinemas, Kerikeri
Matakana Cinemas, Matakana
Bridgeway, Auckland
Monterey Cinemas Howick, Auckland
Rialto Cinemas Newmarket, Auckland
Luxe Cinemas, Tauranga
Event Cinemas, New Plymouth
Event Cinemas, Palmerston North
The Screening Room, Masterton
Light House Cinema, Wellington
Event Cinemas, Blenheim
The Gecko, Motueka
Regent, Greymouth
Town Hall Cinemas, Rangiora
Academy Gold Cinema, Christchurch
Dorothy Browns, Arrowtown
Central Cinema, Alexandra
Rialto Cinemas, Dunedin
