Strauss: Salome
20081h 46min
It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila鈥檚 sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde鈥檚 petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss鈥檚 groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.
