A very sexy strip–tease

The new production of ‘Salome’ at the Metropolitan Opera ended with a lying down ‘Salome’ waiting, senseless, for the executioner to fulfill the order of the ‘Tetrarch’. This end was accompanied by a thunderous applause to the protagonist, and I want to think, to the conductor and the orchestra, and with a mix of applause, bravos, and booing to the production team.Karita Mattila was a splendid ‘Salome’. I don’t care, as is the case of some people, if her voice is not loud. She has the ability to project her voice over an orchestra of one hundred and five instruments, and not only that, but always on pitch, always with good diction, and always transmitting her feelings. But her qualities are not only vocal; she is a totally committed actress that understand that opera is not concert or recital, it has to be enacted. Even if she normally…