Greenbrier Valley Theatre (GVT) will present Salome transmitted live from the Met stage in New York City on May 17. The performance will begin at 1 p.m. The Met: Live in HD, the Metropoli-tan Opera’s award- winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts is in its 19th season.
Met music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Vic-torian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; Ameri-can mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
“From its beginnings, The Met: Live in HD was created to connect the Met to a global audience,” says Peter Gelb, the Met’s Maria Manetti Shrem General Manager. “We’re glad to see audiences around the world beginning to return to cinemas in larger numbers since the end of the pandemic.”
Tickets for this performance can be purchased at https://www.gvtheatre.org/opera.
About The Greenbrier Valley Theatre:
The Greenbrier Valley Theatre is the State Professional Theatre of West Virginia. Learn more about GVT at www.gvtheatre.org.
