Salome is indeed one of those stories about a woman that’s told by men, but soprano Ambur Braid has more to say about the young princess
Royalty and opera both live in spaces of extreme stakes, and that’s precisely where Canadian soprano Ambur Braid prefers to spend her time. “Extreme people are much easier to unpack,” says the B.C. native, who has portrayed opera royalty from Mozart’s Queen of the Night inNext month, Braid will star in the COC’s Atom Egoyan-directed production of Richard Strauss’s, the one-act, scandal-laden opera based on the 1891 play by Oscar Wilde .
, bent on punishing the prophet for ignoring her. Maybe, Braid muses, she’s choosing the death penalty, which will surely come from asking for the prophet’s head. “Because what else are you doing? You have no escape in life.” Reading is her preferred method of research, and Braid’s current stack is peppered with books on the Getty family dynasty, London’s interwar society ladies, Hillary Clinton and her favourite topic: Tudor queens. All of it, Braid funnels into onstage characters that go beyond operatic archetypes.
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