Salome – review

Royal Opera House, LondonTwenty-four hours after conducting the 50th-anniversary performance of Britten's War Requiem in Coventry, Andris Nelsons was taking on something completely different at Covent Garden. His previous appearances with the Royal Opera have been in Puccini, but Richard Strauss has been one of his calling cards ever since he took over at the CBSO, and the irresistible combination of realised detail and perfectly controlled dramatic sweep that he brings to the symphonic poems in...

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