The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

Directed by Claus Guth

With Elza van den Heever, Peter Mattei, Gerhard Siegel, Michelle DeYoung and Piotr Buszewski

Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.