Salome - Manitoba Opera

The Synopsis

Herod is obsessed with Salome; Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist); Jokanaan is obsessed with God. During Herod’s birthday feast, Salome discovers Jokanaan imprisoned in a cistern. Intrigued, she demands that he be brought to her, but when Jokanaan learns who she is, he rails against her. She pledges that she will kiss him and he is returned to the cistern. Herod promises to give Salome whatever she wants if she performs the erotic Dance of the Seven Veils. She dances for him, but her price is more than Herod could ever imagine – John the Baptist’s head on a silver platter.

Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hedwig Lachman
Based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name

Sung in German with projected English translations.

Our Land Acknowledgement:

Manitoba Opera is located upon, and operates within, Treaty #1 territory, the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene peoples’ traditional lands and waters and the Red River Métis Nation homelands.

As water nourishes the land and all it gives us, we also acknowledge that the source of the City of Winnipeg’s water is from Shoal Lake, the home and shared territory of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent Nation and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

In view of such understandings and acknowledgments, Manitoba Opera remains committed to working in partnership with the Indigenous peoples in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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