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Overview
David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has suggestions of Nazi Germany. Strauss’s ravishing and voluptuous score adds to the sexual alchemy that is conjured by an international cast led by Nadja Michael in the title role.
Director
Jonathan Haswell
Production
Royal Opera House
Cast
Nadja Michael
Salomé
Michael Volle
Jokanaan
Michaela Schuster
Herodias
Thomas Moser
Herod
J
Joseph Kaiser
Narraboth
C
Christian Sist
First soldier
A
Alan Ewing
Second soldier
D
Daniela Sindram
Herodias's page
V
Vuyani Mlinde
A Cappadocian
P
Pumeza Matshikiza
A slave
