{"id":4609,"date":"2018-09-05T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2018-09-05T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:17:31","slug":"eno-salome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"ENO: Salome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boldly feminine interpretation of Richard Strauss\u2019s\u00a0Salome<\/em>\u00a0launches ENO\u2019s 2018\/19 Season<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Opens Friday 28 September at 7.30pm (7 performances)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Continuing English National Opera\u2019s long tradition of reimagining the operatic canon in daring new ways, the 2018\/19 Season opens with a production of Richard Strauss\u2019s\u00a0Salome<\/em>\u00a0retelling the biblical tale from a radical feminine perspective. Acclaimed Australian director Adena Jacobs makes her UK debut with an all-female creative team, excavating the themes of violence, sexuality and power from Oscar Wilde\u2019s story and presenting them in a shockingly contemporary light. Allison Cook, one of the UK\u2019s most exciting interpreters of 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century repertoire, makes her role debut as the titular princess.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This dreamlike journey through Salome\u2019s psyche, evoked with powerful abstract visual images, shows a claustrophobic space in which female desire replicates the violence of the patriarchal world. ENO Music Director Martyn Brabbins takes the conductor\u2019s baton in his third production as Music Director.<\/p>\n

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Adena Jacobs is the Artistic Director of acclaimed Melbourne-based theatre company Fraught Outfit, which seeks to stage classical and biblical stories from a feminine perspective. Previous adaptations have included\u00a0The Bacchae<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018extraordinary, overwhelming theatre\u2019 – ABC) and\u00a0The Book of Exodus<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018gobsmacking, brilliant\u2019\u2013\u00a0The Melbourne Critique<\/em>). She was Resident Director at Belvoir in Sydney, 2014-15. She comments: \u201cThis production of\u00a0<\/em>Salome\u00a0is mythic, feminine and brutally contemporary. Imagined through Salome\u2019s perspective, Strauss\u2019s opera becomes a fever dream, a dark fantasy, and an examination of patriarchal power and control. My approach to\u00a0<\/em>Salome\u00a0is through the lens of trauma; the ways in which cycles of violence have inscribed themselves on to the bodies and psyches of these characters.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Martyn Brabbins has emerged as one of the country\u2019s leading conductors. In this, the first season he has fully programmed alongside Artistic Director Daniel Kramer, he will also conduct two more pieces,\u00a0War Requiem<\/em>\u00a0and the world premiere of Iain Bell\u2019s\u00a0Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scottish mezzo-soprano Allison Cook, widely acclaimed for her \u2018tour-de-force\u2019 (Opera Magazine<\/em>) performance as the Duchess of Argyll in the 2013 New York City Opera production of\u00a0Powder Her Face<\/em>\u00a0and in the title role as Britten\u2019s\u00a0Phaedra<\/em>\u00a0at the Barbican, makes her ENO debut as well as her role debut in this production.<\/p>\n

English bass David Soar sings the prophet Jokanaan, returning to ENO after singing his \u2018first-rate\u2019 (The Daily Telegraph<\/em>) Animal Tamer and Athlete in 2016\u2019sLulu.<\/em>\u00a0He also returns to ENO to sing Colline in\u00a0La boh\u00e8me<\/em>\u00a0later in the autumn. Northern Irish tenor Michael Colvin, previously seen at the Coliseum as the Painter in\u00a0Lulu<\/em>\u00a0and as Bob Boles 2014\u2019s\u00a0Peter Grimes<\/em>, sings Herod.<\/p>\n

One of ENO\u2019s most admired artists, Susan Bickley, sings Herodias, wife of Herod. Called \u2018one of the greatest singers of our time\u2019 (The Spectator<\/em>), she has been seen on the ENO stage many times, most recently as Paulina in 2017\u2019s premiere of\u00a0The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u00a0and as Eduige in\u00a0Rodelinda,\u00a0<\/em>also in 2017. British tenor and former Glyndebourne Young Artist Stuart Jackson makes his house debut as Narraboth.<\/p>\n

Mezzo-soprano Clare Presland sings Herodias\u2019s page, having given a \u2018beautifully considered\u2019 (WhatsonStage)<\/em>\u00a0Hermia earlier in 2018 in\u00a0A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Jews, Soldiers, and Nazarenes ensemble includes members of the award-winning ENO Chorus, continuing an ENO practice of featuring Chorus members in principal roles from the Studio Live programme. The cast is completed by Trevor Bowes as the Cappadocian and Ceferina Penny in her house debut as the Slave.<\/p>\n

Multi-award-winning designer Marg Horwell makes her UK debut after a much-lauded career in Australian opera and theatre. Lighting design is by Lucy Carter, whose many awards and plaudits for work including\u00a0Oil<\/em>\u00a0at the Almeida Theatre (2016) and ENO\u2019s own\u00a0The Dream of Gerontius<\/em>\u00a0at the Southbank Centre (2017) have made her one of London\u2019s most sought-after lighting designers. Australian choreographer Melanie Lane completes this all-female creative team.<\/p>\n

Salome<\/em>\u00a0opens on Friday 28 September at\u00a07.30pm at the London Coliseum\u00a0for 7 performances: 28 September 3, 6, 12,18, 23 October at 7.30pm and 20 October at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n

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