Salome

In the organizer's words:

Music drama by Richard Strauss

A biblical thriller: Salome falls in love with John the Baptist, but he refuses to succumb to the strong-willed princess's desires. Their paths end fatally. Oscar Wilde turned the story of Salome and the imprisoned anarchist into a scandalous one-act play, and Richard Strauss turned it into a musical psychological thriller. In almost two breathlessly hot, colorful hours of opera, the boundary to greed, to intoxicatingly uncontrolled, Dionysian drive is crossed several times.