Strauss: Salome

Grigorian’s voice is on the lighter side of dramatic soprano, but it gleams from the mid-range to the top with a bright timbre that doesn’t grow shrill as it ascends. She uses her voice fearlessly—as... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: 801704
Label: Unitel Editions

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Strauss, R: Salome

Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festspielhaus, August 2018
Asmik Grigorian (Salome), John Daszak (Herod), Anna Maria Chiuri (Herodias), Gábor Bretz (Jokanaan), Julian Prégardien (Narraboth)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Franz Welser-Möst

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STAGED BY: Romeo Castellucci

Richard Strauss’s opera at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Romeo Castellucci at the Felsenreitschule, was nothing short of a sensation! Debuting in the title role, Asmik Grigorian propelled herself to international stardom with her mesmerizing singing and acting abilities. The exceptional soprano recently won the International Opera Award as best singer. To witness Maestro Franz Welser-Möst performing together with the Wiener Philharmoniker and an outstanding cast ‘makes you think you are hearing the piece in its most perfect incarnation yet’ (Financial Times). ‘Asmik Grigorian sweeps all in her wake in the title role of Strauss’s opera. […] Here is a Salome to end all Salomes. […] In total, it is stunning…’ (Financal Times)

‘thrilling’ (Spiegel Online)

‘A breathtakingly dense, musically epoch-making […] Salome, which brought the house down!’ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

SOUND FORMAT: BD: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.1

PICTURE: NTSC, 16:9

SUBTITLES: German (original language), English, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: English, German, French

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 mins

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January/February 2020

Grigorian’s voice is on the lighter side of dramatic soprano, but it gleams from the mid-range to the top with a bright timbre that doesn’t grow shrill as it ascends. She uses her voice fearlessly—as did Behrens—hurling herself into every phrase. The orchestral part is generally subdued, which deprives Strauss’s score of thrills; nonetheless, the playing by the Vienna Philharmonic is wonderful. The visuals, audio, and camera work are all excellent, with a special nod to the video direction, which is superb.

August 2019

Sets a new benchmark in the performance of the title role.

April 2020

Occasionally an operatic performance appears that is of such extraordinary quality that it sweeps all before it, and seems certain to have set the new artistic benchmark for the role. Such an occasion was the appearance of Asmik Grigorian as Salome…she delivers here what must surely rank as one of the great operatic performances of recent times. Hers is a soprano of burnished beauty…And she is a wonderful actress…Gábor Bretz is outstanding as Jokanaan.

21st July 2019

[Grigorian] has everything: looks and a slender, penetrating, never steely sound...Castellucci’s “direction” is more opera as art installation than coherent text-based theatre, but Grigorian and her excellent colleagues are fabulously supported by Welser-Möst’s Vienna players on blazing form.

15th August 2019

It’s definitely worth seeing...partly for Franz Welser-Möst’s conducting with the Vienna Philharmonic, but most of all for Asmik Grigorian’s performance in the title role. She’s a totally compelling, totally credible Salome, utterly secure vocally and fabulously contained; her performance is a real star-is-born moment.

Opera Now September 2019

[Grigorian] Her Salome is obviously damaged and demanding, and she avoids petulance. One of those special performances when voice, physique and intelligence all coincide in the perfect role. Bretz is a ﬁne-toned Jochanaan and John Daszak and Anna Maria Chiuri detailed as Herod and Herodias. Franz Welser-Möst conducts with clarity and isn’t afraid to unleash the full might of the Vienna Philharmonic.

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