Salomé Tickets

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Richard Strauss's opera still has the power to shock, and David McVicar took full advantage of it when his potent staging hit the stage in 2008. For the first revival of this sexy, violent Royal Opera production, acclaimed German soprano Angela Denoke takes on the sensational role of Salome with Gerhard Siegel as her besotted stepfather and Danish baritone Johan Reuter taking the role of the tortured John the Baptist.

Short Biography
Richard Strauss's opera still has the power to shock, and David McVicar took full advantage of it when his potent staging hit the stage in 2008. For the first revival of this sexy, violent Royal Opera production, acclaimed German soprano Angela Denoke takes on the sensational role of Salome with Gerhard Siegel as her besotted stepfather and Danish baritone Johan Reuter taking the role of the tortured John the Baptist.

In-depth Biography
Spanish singer Salomé was one of four performers to be elected winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, alongside entries from French vocalist Frida Boccara, the U.K.'s Lulu, and the Netherlands' Lennie Kuhr. She was born Maria Rosa Marco on June 21, 1943, in Barcelona. She would record versions of her winning entry, "Vivo Cantando," in no less than seven languages -- Spanish, Basque and Catalan, French, English, German, Italian, and Serbo-Croat. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi