Head for Salome at Houston Grand Opera if you're an opera fan but leave the kids at home. HouGrandOpera
A scandalous opera based on a scandalous play by Oscar Wilde —— complete with the Dance of the Seven Veils is about to receive a new production courtesy of Houston Grand Opera and according to the opera folks, even in our modern age it's still not suitable for children. Even if it did start with the Bible .
"I love his orchestration, the bombasticness of it. I love the complexity. I find Strauss, he’s cerebral and intellectual in a way that there's no end to the layers that you can dig down in, both from a dramatic and musical standpoint. I think that he’s one of the hardest composers to learn as a singer for me but once you get it learned it makes complete sense and and couldn’t be done any other way.
Unfortunately, what she wants is Jochanaan's head which, after arguing against this, Herod gives in. When presented with the head, Salome kisses it repeatedly which appalls Herod, who belatedly orders his soldiers to kill her. . "The way that we set the stage is a world where everyone is using other people to get what they want. Everyone is sort of awful so if all a child has is this world how do you develop empathy, how do you develop sympathy, how do you see human life as something worthwhile?""John the Baptist is representing really genuine love. There's something John the Baptist is speaking to that she's never heard before. We also explore childhood trauma that she has suppressed.
"There are two big sections of singing for Salome that just are pretty relentless. And they are very fast and he doesn’t give you a chance to sort of breathe and settle. It is an extremely emotional and physical role. It's complex in its actual singing and counting the notes. But on top of it you’re running around and having a mental breakdown at the same time and trying to make it all seamless.
Spanish director Francisco Negri is also be making his HGO debut, in a production that is both more modern than the original setting and is also"out of time," as Wilde puts it. Two Houston favorites bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as Jokanaan and tenor Chad Shelton as Herod, also take the stage, with . Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting.
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