Salome
Cincinnati Opera
-
DateJune 18 - 20, 2026
-
VenueMusic Hall
-
LocationSpringer Auditorium
-
AvailabilityOn Sale Now
-
Seating ChartView Seating Chart
Buy Tickets
Music Hall
Music Hall
Event Details
Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann
Sung in German with projected English translations
LUST. POWER. PROPHECY.
Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather Herod’s birthday feast, Salome dances and, at her maniacal mother’s behest, demands a gruesome reward. Set to Richard Strauss’s lush score, Salome is a fever dream of lust, power, and prophecy, where every glance is loaded and no desire is without cost.