"Great Performances at the Met: Salome" Preview
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Director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play.
The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play, setting it in an intricate Victorian world filled with symbolism and contrasts of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine Salome, who demands the head of Jochanaan.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
"Great Performances at the Met: Salome" Preview
Preview: Season 52 Episode 24 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play, setting it in an intricate Victorian world filled with symbolism and contrasts of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine Salome, who demands the head of Jochanaan.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMeet the “femme fatale” Salome in the Richard Strauss opera based on the scandalous Oscar Wilde play.
Men desire her — even her lecherous stepfather.
But the only man she wants is a holy man she can't have.
Or can she?
Horrifying and shocking.
Look for Elza van den Heever as the immoral “Salome” on “Great Performances at the Met.”
Elza van den Heever and Gerhard Siegel in "Salome"
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Clip: S52 Ep24 | 1m 10s | Salome (Elza van den Heever) and Herod (Gerhard Siegel) sing an excerpt from the opera. (1m 10s)
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