Lyric Opera 2025-2026 Issue 8 - Salome

15 | Lyric Opera of Chicago Salome New-to-Chicago production | Opera in German Music by Richard Strauss Libretto from Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé January 25, 29 | February 3, 6, 11 m , & 14, 2026 CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE Narraboth Ryan Capozzo •• Page Catherine Martin First Soldier Scott Conner + Second Soldier Christopher Humbert, Jr. • Jochanaan Nicholas Brownlee + A Cappadocian Sankara Harouna • Salome Jennifer Holloway + A Slave Angela De Venuto Herod Brandon Jovanovich Herodias Tanja Ariane Baumgartner First Jew Bille Bruley + Second Jew Travon D.Walker • Third Jew Daniel Luis Espinal • Fourth Jew Zhengyi Bai + Fifth Jew Benjamin R. Sokol • First Nazarene Aleksey Bogdanov + Second Nazarene Sihao Hu • + Conductor Tomáš Netopil + Original Director Sir David McVicar Revival Director Julia Burbach + Designer Es Devlin + Original Lighting Designer Wolfgang Göbbel Revival Lighting Designer Chris Maravich Video Designer 59 Studio + Original Choreographer Andrew George Revival Choreographer Emily Piercy + Wig & Makeup Designer John Metzner Associate Director Jordan Lee Braun Assistant Director Marinette Gomez • Stage Manager Rachel A.Tobias Stage Band Conductor Levi Hammer Musical Preparation William C. Billingham Keun-A Lee Fight & Intimacy Director Samantha Kaufman First performed by Semperoper Dresden,Germany on December 9,1905. First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on October 17,1956. + Lyric debut • Current Member, The Patrick G.and Shirley W.Ryan Opera Center •• Alumnus, The Patrick G.and Shirley W.Ryan Opera Center Actors Lenessa Age, Jon Beal, Becca Blatt,Miles Borchard, Tony DiFalco, Emerson Elias,Adam Fane, Graham Hawley, John B. Leen, Irene Lo,Chris Logan, Alyson Lyon, Daniel Martin,Talia Neidorf, Carrie Lee Patterson, and Michael Saubert