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Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Salome at the Edinburgh International Festival

Salome at the Edinburgh International Festival

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Salome at the Edinburgh International Festival

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra perform Richard Strauss's Salome.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra perform Richard Strauss's opera Salome. Swedish soprano Malin Byström sings the title role.

Swedish soprano Malin Byström takes the title role in Richard Strauss’s decadent one-act thriller based on Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play. Salome was first performed in Dresden in1905 but the combination of the biblical and the erotic lead it to be banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain's office until 1907. Conductor Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra return to the Edinburgh International Festival, following their acclaimed Peter Grimes in 2017, to paint a compelling picture of a court awash with desire and death.

Strauss: Salome
Salome.....Malin Byström
Jochanaan.....Johan Reuter
Herodes.....Gerhard Siegel 
Herodias.....Katarina Dalayman
Narraboth.....Bror Magnus Tødenes
Page of Herodias.....Hanna Hipp
First Jew.....Michael Müller-Kasztelan
Second Jew.....Petter Moen 
Third Jew.....John W Olsen
Fourth Jew.....James Nathan Kryshak 
Fifth Jew.....Callum Thorpe
First Nazarene.....Clive Bayley
Second Nazarene.....James Ley
First Soldier.....Igor Bakan
Second Soldier.....James Platt
A Cappadocian.....James Berry
A Slave.....Rita Therese Ziem
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer: Lindsay Pell

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