Salomé (2005)
Playwright | Oscar Wilde
Stage director | Maria Cristina Madau
Stage design | Licia Lucchese
Paintings | Jean Marie Barotte
Set design painting & sculptures | Licia Lucchese & Maria Cristina Madau
Costumes | Alejandra Di Andia & Lucia Lucchese
Lighting | Jean Luc Chanonat
Music | An Ton That
Assistant to stage director | Tonia Galievsky
Production | Alambic production
Coproduction with l’Onde – Espace culturel de Vélizy-Villacoublay
Performers | Hérode: Wolfgang Kleinertz | Salomé: Edith Vernes | Iokanaan: Karim Bouziouane | Herodias: Tonia Galievsky | Le jeune Syrien: Tigellin Xavier Valery | Le page d’Herodia: Jean-Paul Sermadiras | Soldat / un Juif musicien: Vincent Sermonne | Deuxième soldat: Montassar Ben Alaya | Live musician: An Ton That
Premiere on February 4th 2005 at L’Onde – Espace Culturel de Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
Oscar Wilde play directed by Maria Cristina Madau in 2005. The text had been written in French by Wilde himself and would serve as the libretto for Richard Strauss’ infamous opera.
Maria Cristina’s staging was visually superb, so was the stage design, created by her husband and herself, but the cast was uneven and lacking in coherence, with each of the actors indulging in his own acting style. Elements of the incidental music were then used for Jo Kanamori’s ballet NINA later the same year.
Maria Cristina contacted me a year after to possibly turn Salomé into a full scale musical theatre piece for the Opéra Comique in Paris, but the project unfortunately never saw the light.”
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