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S52E24

Great Performances at the Met: Salome

Premiere: 9/14/2025 | 0:30 |

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.

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Premieres beginning Sunday, September 14 on PBS (check local listings)

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, sung by Peter Mattei. Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
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Meet the “femme fatale” Salome in the Richard Strauss opera based on the scandalous Oscar Wilde play.

Men desire her — even her lecherous stepfather.

But the only man she wants is a holy man she can't have.

Or can she?

Horrifying and shocking.

Look for Elza van den Heever as the immoral “Salome” on “Great Performances at the Met.”