SALOME, Richard Strauss
It is not the first time that the ensemble of the Hungarian State Opera has come to the Janáček Brno festival. This time, it isn´t with a Janáček production, but with an opera whose time of creation intersects with the time when Janáček was working on his innovatively-styled new opera, Destiny. Just like Janáček with Jenůfa and subsequently Destiny, Richard Strauss also went in a new direction with Salome – that of 20th century opera.