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David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has suggestions of Nazi Germany. Strauss’s ravishing and voluptuous score adds to the sexual alchemy that is conjured by an international cast led by Nadja Michael in the title role.
Cast
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Nadja Michael
Salomé
M
Michael Volle
Jokanaan
M
Michaela Schuster
Herodias
T
Thomas Moser
Herod
J
Joseph Kaiser
Narraboth
D
Daniela Sindram
Herodias's page
P
Pumeza Matshikiza
A slave
A
Adrian Thompson
First Jew
H
Hubert Francis
Third Jew
P
Park Ji-min
Fourth Jew
J
Jeremy White
Fifth Jew
I
Iain Paterson
First Nazarene
D
Duncan Meadows
Naaman (Executioner)
