This new staging of Salome at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki is the work of Christof Loy and is to be conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Oscar Wilde’s one-act drama Salomé was published in French in 1891 and now counts as a key work of Anglo-French Décadence. Richard Strauss used the German translation of it by the poet and language teacher, Hedwig Lachmann, for his libretto. Salome was his third opera, and its premiere at the Royal Opera House in Dresden in 1905 helped bring about his breakthrough as a composer.
