Richard Strauss: Salome

Opera concertante at the Athens State Orchestra

Tue. 23 December 2025 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

The passion of the sensual princess Salome for John the Baptist, one of the most famous biblical stories combining religion with unrequited love and flagrant crime was turned into a theatrical work by Oscar Wilde and this was the basis for Richard Strauss's opera Salome. At the peak of his maturity and success, the great German Romanticist created a diachronically shocking musical score due to its arousing harmonic plot, its very plethoric instrumentation and its brilliant phonetic expression. Two of the most in demand voices of the international operatic spectrum, the Russian soprano Elena Stikhina and the Austrian tenor Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke are coming to Greece to perform the leading roles of Salome and Herode correspondingly, under the baton of Greece's top opera conductor, Lukas Karytinos.

 

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RICHARD STRAUSS (1864 – 1949)
Salome, opera in one act, op. 54 (concertante)

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

Ticket price: 90€, 70€, 50€, 40€ and 20€ (concessions)

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