Lakeside Little Theatre will host Richard Strauss’ tragic one-act opera, “Salome,” Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25 and 26, 4 p.m.
Sung in German (with English subtitles) and filmed live at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, the acclaimed production will be shown in LLT’s air-conditioned McIntosh Auditorium with its state-of-the-art screen and sound system.
The opera retells the biblical account of John the Baptist’s death, when Salome demanded the prophet’s head on a platter.
Met Live described its production as “... a white-hot …tragedy, filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play …[with] a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged heroine.”
Critic Alex Ross called the score “... at once staggeringly original, more than a little trashy, and unsettling in its sexual and racial politics.” The New York Classical Review remarked that the Met Live production “... mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura.” Vulture called it “spectacular.”
Tickets for 350 pesos are available at lakesidelittletheatre .com. Anyone purchasing at te box office with an INE (Mexican voter ID) card will receive a 100-peso discount.