It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Karita MattilaSalome | Salome |
| IIldikó KomlósiHerodias | Herodias |
| JJoseph KaiserNarraboth | Narraboth |
| KKim BegleyHerod | Herod |
| JJuha UusitaloJochanaan | Jochanaan |
| LLucy SchauferThe page | The page |
 Keith MillerFirst soldier | First soldier |
 Richard BersteinSecond soldier | Second soldier |
| DDavid WonA Cappadocian | A Cappadocian |
| RReveka Evangelia MavrovitisA slave | A slave |
| AAllan GlassmanFirst Jew | First Jew |
 Mark SchowalterSecond Jew | Second Jew |
| AAdam KleinThird Jew | Third Jew |
 John EasterlinFourth Jew | Fourth Jew |
 James CourtneyFifth Jew | Fifth Jew |
| MMorris RobinsonFirst Nazarene | First Nazarene |
| DDonovan SingletarySecond Nazarine | Second Nazarine |
| RReginald BraithwaiteExecutioner | Executioner |