Hérodiade (concert version)

Few female figures inspired the art of the late 19th century as much as the Judean princess Salome, who, according to legend, was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist.

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  • Hérodiade – Stan Hema
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    Hérodiade – Stan Hema

  • Hérodiade – Stan Hema
    Stan Hema

    Hérodiade – Stan Hema

  • Hérodiade – Stan Hema
    Stan Hema

    Hérodiade – Stan Hema

In France in particular, people were fascinated by this material and its amalgamation of orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Massenet also took up the challenge: however, the focus of his opera is not Salome but her mother Herodias, the wife of King Herod ...

Conductor: Enrique Mazzola; With Etienne Dupuis, Clémentine Margaine, Nicole Car, Matthew Polenzani, Marko Mimica a. o.

Few female characters inspired the art of the late 19th century as lastingly as the Judean princess Salome, who legend has it was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. In France especially, writers, painters and composers were transfixed by the subject and its heady blend of orientalism, eroticism, decadence and opulence. No less so Jules Massenet, although his treatment, which received its world premiere in Brussels in 1881, focused not on the royal child-woman Salome, whom Richard Strauss was to take as his main protagonist a quarter of a century later, but on her mother Herodias, the wife of King Herod. Strauss’s rendition, his first triumph in the opera genre, kicked open the door to the 20th century, while Massenet’s version, with its pathos, posturing and Hollywood-worthy script, marks one of the last hurrahs of 19th-century grand opéra. With his cast featuring a queen whose jealousy is to blame for her daughter’s death, an enigmatic soothsayer, a prophet who is not immune to feelings of love, a vacillating ruler and a princess who displays a heroic degree of love, Massenet presents a multitude of striking characters and includes a liberal dash of local colour with his use of Hebrew and oriental motifs.

For this concertante performance at the Deutsche Oper Berlin the great mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine returns to the opera house where she has enjoyed triumphs in roles such as Carmen, Marguerite in LA DAMNATION DE FAUST and most recently Fidès in LE PROPHETE.

Artists/Collaborators: Enrique Mazzola (Musikalische Leitung), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Etienne Dupuis (Hérode), Clémentine Margaine (Hérodiade), Matthew Polenzani (Jean), Nicole Car (Salomé), Marko Mimica (Phanuel), Dean Murphy (Vitellius), Kyle Miller (Der Hohepriester), Thomas Cilluffo (Stimme aus dem Tempel), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

45 minutes before beginning: Introduction (in German language)

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