ALEXANDER SODDY conducts “Salome” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with ALLISON OAKES singing the title role and NIKOLAI SCHUKOFF as Herodes
ALEXANDER SODDY conducts “Salome” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with ALLISON OAKES singing the title role and NIKOLAI SCHUKOFF as Herodes
PERFORMANCES on 13/16/23/27 April 2025
British conductor Alexander Soddy ranks among the most sought-after conductors of his generation, and is regularly engaged by top orchestras and opera houses around the world. In the 2024/25 Season Soddy will debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Salome and return to some of the houses where he has become a regular fixture, including to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Fidelio; the Berlin State Opera with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore and Kurtag’s Fin de Partie; the Metropolitan Opera with Aida and La Bohème; and for the first time in a number of years to the Hamburg State Opera with Salome.
In the past seasons Allison Oakes established a reputation as one of the new leading dramatic sopranos with successes including Chrysothemis (Elektra) at the Metropolitan Opera New York as well as at Semperoper Dresden and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salome and Marietta (Die tote Stadt) at Staatsoper Hamburg, Salome and Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and Brünnhilde (Siegfried) at the Wagner Festival in Budapest.
The Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff opens the 2024/25 season as Don José in a new production of Carmen at the Volksoper Wien, directed by Lotte de Beer. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents the tenor as Herod in a new production of Salome under the baton of Alexander Soddy. After triumphant successes as Jim Mahoney at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, this season he can be seen in this very role in the new production of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Stefan Klingele / Benedikt von Peter).