Gerald Barry’s Salome
Green Umbrella New Music Series
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Tue Mar 24, 2026 8pm
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Gerald Barry’s Salome
In seasons past, the LA Phil premiered two of Gerald Barry’s daring operas, and now Thomas Adès leads the US premiere of Barry’s Salome.
The opera is based on Oscar Wilde’s play Salome, with deviations from the original. Just as surreal as Barry’s other Wilde-inspired opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome belongs to the fantastical world of his Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, based on the Lewis Carroll text. Both operas share madness, ecstasy, humor, and murder.
Salome is an opera of voyeurism, the moon, French, God, punishment of sin, misunderstanding, sex, the metronome, suicide, hysteria, hunger, blood, typing, speaking correctly, sterility, The Blue Danube, the wind, fever, art, Wilde, dreaming, beheading, Frankenstein, and kissing.
In this production, soprano Alison Scherzer portrays Salome, the typist who agrees to transcribe Wilde’s letter “De Profundis” as dictated by the king.
Lead support for this performance is generously provided by the De Marchena-Huyke Foundation, with generous additional support from Raulee Marcus and the Marcus Fund for New Music.
Program
Gerald BARRY
US premiere
LA Phil commission
with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
