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Salome
R. Strauss
Having thrilled audiences with her La bohème in 2011, Gale Edwards returns to Opera Australia in 2012 with a thrilling new production of Salome.
Salome is sexy. She is subversive. She is a femme fatale. Like an earthy spirit of decadence, her song blows the civilised sensibilities of the world apart. Tanz für mich, Salome…Dance for me, Salome.
Richard Strauss’s Salome caused a sensation when it premiered in Europe in 1905. It has been shocking and enthralling audiences ever since. The music is by turns ravishing and disturbing, pushing the boundaries of romantic music with burnished tones and fiery harmonies. Strauss throws all his musical powers into the biblical story of a princess, a prisoner, a dance and a death.
Now Gale Edwards, who thrilled audiences with her edgy and brilliant La bohème in 2011, directs a new production of Richard Strauss’s explosive one-act opera. And who will play Salome?
Who else but one of the world’s leading interpreters of the great Strauss heroines, Cheryl Barker.
Performed in German with English surtitles.
An Opera Conference co-production.
Venue: Opera Theatre
Dates: 12 October – 3 November, 2012.
Duration: Approximately one hour and forty minutes – no interval.
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