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Based on Oscar Wilde’s one-act play, Salome has been thrilling and fascinating audiences for more than a century. Lyric Opera of Chicago brings Sir David McVicar’s decadent production — which is set in 1940s fascist Italy and sheds a harsh light on the timeless greed and entitlement of the elite — to Chicago.

This gory thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years starring Elena Stikhina in the demanding title role of a teenage femme fatale whose infatuation has fatal implications, alongside Lyric favorites Brandon Jovanovich and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner.

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Salome

Lyric Opera House

The Knights of the Holy Grail are in decline. Their ruler, Amfortas, is ailing from an unhealable wound. While the knight Gurnemanz wistfully recalls the prophecy of a guileless youth who will restore the order, he refuses to believe that the naive, young man before him could be that savior. And so the youth, Parsifal, leaves on what will become a journey that will bring him full circle back to the knights.

For the first time in 25 years, Wagner’s final opera returns in a brand-new San Francisco Opera production. Matthew Ozawa— whose work was last seen in the acclaimed Orpheus and Eurydice—directs this meditation on compassion, focusing on the intersection of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions in a mythical world of knights and sorcerers.

Music Director Eun Sun Kim continues her exploration of Wagner’s works through this sublime score, brought to life with a cast of Wagnerian superstars joined by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Dancers.

Parsifal

War Memorial Opera House

Luciano Berio, one of the most prominent Italian composers of the twentieth century, had a very special relationship with tradition and created numerous arrangements, orchestrations and transcriptions of very different composers - from Monteverdi to Mahler and the Beatles. While he was more cautious in other arrangements, in the work that he completed in 1989 under the title "Rendering", his ability as an arranger merges almost completely with his original compositional talent. The work is based on Schubert's fragments of Symphony No. 10 in D major, D 936A, of which those of the Andante in B minor, in Berio's and others' opinion, already anticipate Mahler's music. "This restoration follows the principles of a modern restoration of frescoes, which seeks to revive the old colours without, however, covering up the damage caused by time, often leaving irreversible empty spots in the composition," emphasizes Luciano Berio.


Andris Poga – Mahler »The Song of the Earth«

Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Richard Wagner's redemption operas continually invite new interpretations. Joana Mallwitz was already deeply involved with the composer's oeuvre during her time as General Music Director in Nuremberg. Director and musician Johannes Erath will stage the Baden-Baden Lohengrin production. He began his directing career as an assistant to Willy Decker, worked at the Semperoper in Dresden among other venues, and has been awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize and the Austrian Music Theater Prize.

Mezzo-soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 28 - Apr 5, 2026

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Past events

Jan 25 - Feb 14, 2026

Salome · Lyric Opera of Chicago

Oct 25 - Nov 13, 2025

Parsifal · San Francisco Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Herodias in Salome by Strauss

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Ortrud in Lohengrin by Wagner

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Kundry in Parsifal by Wagner

San Francisco Opera

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