Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and an international cast in concert performances of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” at Severance Hall on May 19 at 8 p.m. and May 26, at 8 p.m.

The opera will also be presented at New York’s Carnegie Hall May 24, at 8 p.m.

These will be the first Cleveland Orchestra performances of “Salome.”

Principal cast members are soprano Nina Stemme as Salome, tenor Rudolf Schasching as Herod, mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel as Herodias, bass-baritone Eric Owens as Jochanaan, and tenor Garrett Sorenson as Narraboth. Stemme and Schasching make their Cleveland Orchestra debut with these performances.

Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, called “a match for the best Salomes in the history of opera,” leads international cast in Strauss’s Salome with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Severance Hall on May 19 and 26 and at Carnegie Hall on May 24.

Yefim Bronfman, named “one of the greatest pianists active today” by The New York Times, is soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall on May 23.

The opera will be performed in German, with projected English supertitles for the Severance Hall performances.

In “Salome,” Richard Strauss set a scandalous libretto to some of the most incendiary and ingenious music ever written for an opera — one of music history’s most revolutionary works. The German libretto was created by Strauss, based on the German translation by Hedwig Lachmann of the play by Oscar Wilde.

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Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and an international cast in concert performances of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” at Severance Hall on May 19 at 8 p.m. and May 26, at 8 p.m.

The opera will also be presented at New York’s Carnegie Hall May 24, at 8 p.m.

These will be the first Cleveland Orchestra performances of “Salome.”

Principal cast members are soprano Nina Stemme as Salome, tenor Rudolf Schasching as Herod, mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel as Herodias, bass-baritone Eric Owens as Jochanaan, and tenor Garrett Sorenson as Narraboth. Stemme and Schasching make their Cleveland Orchestra debut with these performances.

Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, called “a match for the best Salomes in the history of opera,” leads international cast in Strauss’s Salome with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Severance Hall on May 19 and 26 and at Carnegie Hall on May 24.

Yefim Bronfman, named “one of the greatest pianists active today” by The New York Times, is soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall on May 23.

The opera will be performed in German, with projected English supertitles for the Severance Hall performances.

In “Salome,” Richard Strauss set a scandalous libretto to some of the most incendiary and ingenious music ever written for an opera — one of music history’s most revolutionary works. The German libretto was created by Strauss, based on the German translation by Hedwig Lachmann of the play by Oscar Wilde.

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