MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA

Front and center at Saturday's performance was soprano Patricia Racette as Strauss' sexually messed-up antiheroine. Racette's was a dominant, indefatigable performance that rose to considerable heights of intensity. She occasionally pushed sharp of the note — forgivable when you have a super-large orchestra venting on stage behind you. Tenor Dennis Petersen got loud cheers for his leering, comedically styled Herod, pecked to petulance by mezzo Katharine Goeldner as his sequined wife, Herodias. Pick of the evening vocally was baritone Stephen Powell's resonantly phrased John the Baptist, a lonely voice of probity in the undrained moral swamp around him.

—Star Tribune

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Conductor: Andrew Litton

Salome: Pat Racette

Herod: Dennis Petersen

Herodias: Katherine Goeldner

Narraboth: John Robert Lindsey

Jochanaan: Stephen Powell

Page: Victoria Vargas

Cappadocian/5th Jew: Benjamin Sieverding

Slave: Karin Wolverton

1st Soldier/1st Nazarene: Jeremy Galyon

2nd Soldier: Jeffrey Madison

2nd Jew: David Blalock

3rd Jew: Brian Wallin

4th Jew: David Walton

2nd Nazarene: Christopher Colmenero

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Orchestra Hall

Minneapolis, MN

August 5, 2017