On the 19th of august Mathieu van Bellen and I will present our version of Richard Strauss Salome at PODIUM Festival Esslingen. This is our 3rd opera project, following Puccinis Tosca and La Boheme. The project is very much in the same vein as the two previous ones, but this time tackling a somewhat different type of opera. Strauss based his opera on the play by Oscar Wilde, putting the original play to music almost word for word. Like with the two other operas we have arranged the orchestra between us, and divided up the soloists (Mathieu does Herod & Salome, while I tackle Jokhanaan). Subtitles are designed by Ida Hatleskog, while Anselm Bieber is doing the dramaturgy. I can’t wait to get this to the stage and share this wild and wicked musical journey with an audience!