Welser-Möst conducts Strauss: Salome – with Asmik Grigorian

Filmed at the Salzburg Festival in 2018, this Salome marked Asmik Grigorian’s electrifying international breakthrough in the title role. In Romeo Castellucci’s stark, visually arresting staging, the space is sealed into an intense, almost ritual arena, sharpening the opera’s psychological edge. Grigorian places Salome’s dangerous desires and inner turmoil at the centre of the drama with visceral intensity. In the pit, Franz Welser-Möst leads the Wiener Philharmoniker through Strauss’s score in all its volatile colour and surging force, in a staging that gripped audiences and quickly became one of the defining operatic events of recent years.