Salome

In the organizer's words:

MUSIC THEATER

Theater am Goetheplatz

Music drama in one act by Richard Strauss
Text based on the drama by Oscar Wilde
in the translation by Hedwig Lachmann
In German with German overtext
Musical direction: Stefan Klingele
Director: Ulrike Schwab

"If you love me, you're finished." (Jean-Luc Godard) - Who is Salome? What is the story of the young woman who pays for her erotic dance in front of her stepfather with a severed head? Why does she desire the prophet who preaches the end of the world and denounces our ailing society? Is it simply about rejected love? A way out of a broken family? Or an act of liberation turned monstrous? For over 2000 years, the biblical Salome has danced her way through cultural history, her body repeatedly reflecting fears and desires, questions of time and gender. In 1891, Oscar Wilde dedicated a scandalous drama to the icon of female power and danger, and a little later Richard Strauss condensed it into a visually and sonically powerful landscape of the soul, which draws its strength from nothing but looks and in which love and death are intertwined in the most radical way.