SALOME

Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Oscar Wilde.
English singing translation by Tom Hammond, used by permission of English National Opera Benevolent Fund

HEARTBEAT OPERA

Co-Adaptation: Jacob Ashworth, Elizabeth Dinkova | New Arrangement: Dan Schlosberg | Director: Elizabeth Dinkova | Music Director: Jacob Ashworth | Scenic Designer: Emona Stoykova | Costume Designer: Mika Eubanks" | Video & Sound Design: John Gasper | Lighting Designer: Emma Deane | Props Designer: Madisen Frazier | Stage Manager: Natalie Wagner | Choreographer: Emma Jaster | Fight & Intimacy Director: Rick Sordelet

 

Photo credits: A.Boyle

 

“The Best Classical Music of 2025, So Far”
”Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.”
— The NEW YORK TIMES
“It’s “Salome” unfiltered, uncushioned by strings, exposed with a naked ferocity. All the characters are on the edge, and there is no escape for them[..] In Emona Stoykova’s gritty scenic design, Narraboth and the Page monitor security cameras showing the rooms inside Herod’s grand house (one image features the inaudibly arguing Jews). Jokanaan is always visible in his prison, a clear-walled cube at center stage. Watching and surveillance are the central motifs, taken to extremes.”
— Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal
“Dinkova’s direction excelled at storytelling and Emona Stoykova’s set heightened the storytelling [...] this production lacked nothing in terms of immediacy”
— VOCE DI MECHE
“Heartbeat Opera, spending a fraction of the Met’s budget, offered a riveting version of “Salome” on a chamber scale... at times, it is heightened”
— Alex Ross, The NEW YORKER