|
| |
| |
| The season comes to a grand finale with a full-length, fully staged opera, an annual event Maestro Lü has overseen since he became the NSO’s music director and one that always creates a sensation. This year the opera is Richard Strauss’s Salome, a grisly story of “fatal attraction.” Short it may be in length – a single act of about 100 minutes -, but it packs a wallop. In fact, many members of the audiences to witness its initial performances over a century ago found it too much to take. There is no denying that there are shocking, perverse, even depraved things in it. In fact, you might go so far as to call it an X-rated opera. But times have changed, and Salome is now regarded as a brilliant, thrilling and totally accessible opera. The title role is one of the most demanding in the entire repertory. The huge orchestra pours forth a stream of luxuriantly sensuous music. At times it is graphically descriptive, as when we are plunged into the sultry, perfumed Middle Eastern night, or when Salome does her seductive “Dance of the Seven Veils”, or when King Herod is tempts her with gorgeous, sparkling jewels. Then there are other times when the orchestra creates moods of nervous excitability, almost unbearable tension and sheer horro. As an orchestral showpiece, Salome is second to none. |
|
| Meet the musicians & production team |
 |
Shao-Chia Lü, conductor
“Under the Viennese-trained Lü, (NSO) made the fin de siecle sound world idiomatic. He coaxed from them a burnished, glowing sound that showed off Strauss’ (Elektra’s) luscious orchestration: the strings rippled with menace and the brass and woodwind relished their angst
-filled discords.”
- OPERA (UK) |
| |
 |
Anthony Pilavachi, stage director
“Rarely dose a stage director manage, to translate music so perfectly well in pictures and motions as Pilavachi.”- Lübeck Nachrichten |
| |
 |
Manuela Uhl, Salome
|
|
| |
 |
Roswitha C. Müller, Herodias
„Roswitha Christina Müller, ist mit ihrem eleganten, energischen Auftreten eine würdige Gattin Wotans, gefällt sehr mit ihrer hellen, dynamischen, kräftigen Stimme und viel Elan.“- Opernnetz |
|
| |
 |
Stuart Patterson, Herodes
„......der Tenor drückte dem Giftzwerg seinen Stempel auf, siedelte ihn auch stimmlich zwischen Verschlagenheit, Triumph und Lamoryanz an“ - Lübecker Stadtzeitung |
|
| |
 |
Antonio Yang, Jochanaan
Young won the third prize at the Renata Tebaldi International Singing Competition in Italy, first prize and audience prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and first prize at the 2007 SWR Emmerich Smola Talent Competition. |
|
| |
 |
Fernando Wang, Narraboth
Wang won the fourth prize of Hong Kong Asian Singing Competition in1994, Laureate of Santa Margarita International Vocal Competition, Italy in 1996 and acquired highest degree in diplomas in singing of Chant and Art lyric categories from Luxembourg Conservatory of Music in 1999. |
|
| |
Jo-Pei Weng , the page of Herodias
Siao-Cheng Kong, Wei-Han Tan, Chia-Hsin Wu, Yi-An Chen, Julian Lo, Jews
Chi-An Chen, Chen-Hwa Liu, Nazarenes
Martin Ng, Tzeng-ming Li, Soldiers
Zheng-Cheng Tsai, Cappadocian
Yu-Hsin Wang, Slave |
| |
Wei-Wen Chang, set design
Chun-Yu Lee, lighting design
Heng-Cheng Lin, costume design
Wei-Chia Su, choreographer
Ethan Wang, visual design
Eugene Chin-yuan Yang, technical design
Martin Andersson, Pei-Yao Wang, vocal coach
Yin-Fang Chang, Toni Huang ,rehearsal conductor |
| |
| |
| |
More about Salome ? |
 Perverse Pleasures: Richard Strauss’s Salome by Hugo Shirley ( Please turn to page 61 ) |
| Meet Stage Director |
Lecturer: Anthony Pilavachi
6/29 Sun. 14:00 National Concert Hall Rehearsal Room, entrance at Gate No.3.
Admission 30 minutes before lecture begin, with Salome ticket only.
Lecture conducted in English
|
| Salome in fresh! |
 |
|
