#Latest news with #ClausGuthTimes30-04-2025EntertainmentTimesSalome review — trauma and incest in the Met Opera's immense StraussThe Metropolitan Opera premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome was a notorious scandal, shocking audiences with the lurid eroticism of its text and music. More than a century later it retains its capacity to shock, less due to its biblical nature than for its disturbing implications of child abuse and incest. The opera's psychological complexity is an ideal fit for the intellectually probing German director Claus Guth, making a long overdue Met debut. His production originally opened at the Bolshoi in Moscow in 2021 (it was a planned co-production) but the two houses have cut ties since the invasion of Ukraine and the Met has since built its own sets. The production opens with a child Salome dismembering a doll to the sound of a music
Times30-04-2025EntertainmentTimesSalome review — trauma and incest in the Met Opera's immense StraussThe Metropolitan Opera premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome was a notorious scandal, shocking audiences with the lurid eroticism of its text and music. More than a century later it retains its capacity to shock, less due to its biblical nature than for its disturbing implications of child abuse and incest. The opera's psychological complexity is an ideal fit for the intellectually probing German director Claus Guth, making a long overdue Met debut. His production originally opened at the Bolshoi in Moscow in 2021 (it was a planned co-production) but the two houses have cut ties since the invasion of Ukraine and the Met has since built its own sets. The production opens with a child Salome dismembering a doll to the sound of a music
30-04-2025
