Salome at Houston Grand Opera : a one-act opera filled with shocking scenes and beautiful music. HouGrandOpera
Abominable. Cacophonous. Cruelest discord. Disgusting. Madness.
There's also a projected lava lamp on steroids seen in the prison of John the Baptist , whose psychedelic blobs distract mightily whenever someone stands in front of the annoying kaleidoscope. This is operatic Euro-trash of the highest order. It's still among us and refuses to die. When Herod promises her anything she desires if she will dance for him, she sees her chance. The famous orchestral excerpt Dance of the Seven Veils commences. But wait a minute, something goes horribly wrong. She doesn't dance a step, but removes her shoes while the pole dancers remove her flimsy gauze wrap. Then Herod films her with a mini hand-held video camera, with images projected on screens behind them.
Herod has had enough of her sickness and orders her death. Offstage, smoke rises from the turntable set with its hieroglyphic graffiti. With the tympani pounding – black out.is a horror show, way too obvious in its depravity, a wan throwback to '80s naughty discotheques and leather dive bars. What saves this muddled HGO production is the magnificent conducting from Canadian maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson who is on intimate terms with Strauss' massively layered score.
Tenor Chad Shelton is the epitome of sleaze as Herod, getting drunker as the Judean evening wears on before he gets cornered into agreeing to an impossible demand. His bright clear voice and excellent diction cuts through any of Strauss' myriad textures and creates a searing portrait of a man gone to seed.
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