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The LA Phil premiered Gerald Barry’s operas The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice’s Adventures Underground, and now Thomas Adès leads the US premiere of Barry’s Oscar Wilde-inspired Salome.

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Gerald Barry’s Salome

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Ariadne auf Naxos

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Opera with a text by Händl Klaus (definitive version, 2015-2018, premiered in 2019)

Part of the performance takes place in complete darkness.
Concert performance.

Salzburger Festspiele – Ouverture Spirituelle · Et exspecto – Koma

Mozarteum Foundation

The biblical episode is well known: during a banquet, Princess Salome dances for Herod and he promises her anything in return; the young woman asks for and obtains the head of John the Baptist. In 1891, Oscar Wilde turned the story into a drama, enriched with new elements, which enjoyed great success in Germany and consolidated the image of Salome as a combination of innocence and perversion. Richard Strauss, in search of a subject for a new opera, did not let it slip away and set Wilde’s text (translated into German) to music as it stood, with only minor changes.

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Karl Huml

Events

Upcoming events

6 - 17 Apr, 2027

Salome · Teatro Regio Torino

Past events

Mar 24, 2026

Gerald Barry’s Salome · Los Angeles Philharmonic

1 - 10 Mar, 2026

Ariadne auf Naxos · Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Future and recently performed repertoire

Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Quinto giudeo e Primo soldato in Salome by Strauss

Teatro Regio Torino

The Soldier in Salome by Barry

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Pfleger Jonas in Koma by Haas

Klangforum Wien

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