NZ release date: 07/08/25

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium 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 Victorian-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; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

COMPOSER: Richard Strauss

CONDUCTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

PRODUCTION: Claus Guth

SET DESIGNER: Etienne Pluss

COSTUME DESIGNER: Ursula Kudrna

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Olaf Freese

PROJECTION DESIGNER: rocafilm/Roland Horvath

CHOREOGRAPHER: Sommer Ulrickson

DRAMATURG: Yvonne Gebauer

CAST: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei

SHOWING AT THESE
NZ CINEMAS:

Cathay Cinemas, Kerikeri
Matakana Cinemas, Matakana
Bridgeway, Auckland
Monterey Cinemas Howick, Auckland
Rialto Cinemas Newmarket, Auckland
Waiheke Community Cinema, Auckland
Luxe Cinemas, Tauranga
Lido Cinema, Hamilton
Basement Cinema, Rotorua
Odeon, Gisborne
Event Cinemas, New Plymouth
Focal Point Cinema, Havelock North
Event Cinemas, Palmerston North
The Screening Room, Masterton
Shoreline Cinema, Waikanae
Light House Cinema, Wellington
Event Cinemas, Blenheim
The Gecko, Motueka
State Cinemas​​​​​​​, Nelson
Regent, Greymouth
Town Hall Cinemas, Rangiora
Academy Gold Cinema, Christchurch
Movie Max Digital Cinemas, Timaru
Dorothy Browns, Arrowtown
Central Cinema​​​​​​​, Alexandra
Rialto Cinemas​​​​​​​, Dunedin