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