Salome
Bridgewater Hall
Peter Grimes
Nottingham
Die Zauberflöte
Royal Opera House
Salome
Bridgewater Hall
Peter Grimes
Nottingham
Die Zauberflöte
Royal Opera House
Does Richard Strauss’s Salome still have the power to shock, as the writers of programme notes like to claim? Not, anyway, in a concert performance, such as was given in the Bridgewater Hall last Saturday, the BBC Philharmonic on unusual territory, with soloists from the production that will soon be seen at the Teatro Regio, Turin.
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