Atom Egoyan's Return
Adapted from Oscar Wilde's play, the opera recounts the biblical story of Salome, who – to the horror of her stepfather Herod – demands the head of John the Baptist in return for performing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
At the opera's premiere, the audience and critics were shocked by its subject matter and erotic theme. Salome's world of voyeurism and sexual abuse still elicits an equally visceral response today: " …this Salome is marvelously wicked and wickedly marvelous, which has always been the point of the work – both Oscar Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's operatic adaptation." (The Globe and Mail)
April 21, 27,
May 1, 4, 7, 10, 16, 22, 2013
Sung in German with English SURTITLES™
Conductor Johannes Debus/Derek Bate*
Director Atom Egoyan
Choreographer Serge Bennathan
Set Designer Derek McLane
Costume Designer Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer Michael Whitfield
Projections Designer Phillip Barker
Puppetry Clea Minaker
Chorus Master Sandra Horst
* May 22
Co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Vancouver Opera.
Salome Erika Sunnegårdh
Jochanaan Martin Gantner/Alan Held†
Herod Richard Margison
Herodias Julia Juon
Narraboth Nathaniel Peake
Page Maya Lahyani
† May 7, 10, 16, 22
With the COC Orchestra