Great Performances S52E24 · Great Performances at the Met: Salome

Great Performances

Season 52 · Episode 24 · Great Performances at the Met: Salome · 150 min

The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play, setting it in an intricate Victorian world filled with symbolism and contrasts of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine Salome, who demands the head of Jochanaan.