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Showtimes for Fri April 25
Met Opera 2025: Salome Encore

Music Director Yannick NΓ©zet-SΓ©guin conducts his first Met performances of Straussβs white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europeβs leading opera directors, gives the biblical storyβalready filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wildeβs playβa psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei.