Strauss: Salome
Staatsoper Hamburg, 29th October
“I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.” Dmitri Tcherniakov seems to have taken a leaf from Starveling’s book in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His Salome for Staatsoper Hamburg is a bloodless affair: Narraboth does not stab himself, Salome is not crushed to death and – crucially – John the Baptist does not lose his head.
Asmik Grigorian (Salome)
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Read full review in the January 2024 issue of Opera Now