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Swedish opera star Peter Mattei takes on the role of the prophet Jochanaan in Strauss’ opera about forbidden desire. Metropolitan’s Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the baton on May 17 to conduct this one-act opera, broadcast live in cinemas in Sweden.

Leading the Met’s first new production of Salome in 20 years is Claus Guth, one of Europe’s foremost opera directors, who sets the biblical story in a psychologically astute Victorian setting.

This powerful opera is based on a biblical story: a young Judean princess dances for her stepfather Herod and chooses the head of the prophet John the Baptist as her reward. This theme captured the imagination of many artists, but was perhaps best realized in Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy. Strauss’s score combines the grandeur of Wagner’s epic works with the focus and emotional power of the short Italian verismo operas. Salome premiered at Dresden Court Opera in 1905.

South African soprano Elza van den Heever performs the role of the unbalanced anti-heroine Salome, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan.

German tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s unpleasant stepfather King Herod, American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is his wife Herodias, and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski is Narraboth.