SALOME

June 20, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Music Hall • springer auditorium

Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann

Sung in German with projected English translations

LUST. POWER. PROPHECY.

Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather Herod’s birthday feast, Salome dances and, at her maniacal mother’s behest, demands a gruesome reward. Set to Richard Strauss’s lush score, Salome is a fever dream of lust, power, and prophecy, where every glance is loaded and no desire is without cost.

Estimated running-time 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Tickets are available now as part of a 2026 Summer Festival season ticket package. Tickets to individual performances go on sale Friday, November 21, 2025.