ALEXANDER SODDY conducts “Salome” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with NIKOLAI SCHUKOFF as Herod

ALEXANDER SODDY conducts “Salome” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino starring LIDIA FRIDMAN in the title role and NIKOLAI SCHUKOFF as Herod.

PERFORMANCES on 13/16/23/27 April 2025

British conductor Alexander Soddy is one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation and is regularly engaged by the world's leading orchestras and opera houses. In the 2024/25 season, Soddy will conduct at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino debut with Salome and return to some of the houses where he has become a regular, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Fidelio, the Berlin State Opera with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore and Kurtág's Fin de Partie, the Metropolitan Opera with Aida and La Bohème and for the first time in several years the Hamburgische Staatsoper with Salome.

The Austrian Tenor Nikolai Schukoff He opens the 2024/25 season as Don José in a new production of Carmen at the Volksoper Vienna, directed by Lotte de Beer. Maggio Musicale Fiorentino expected Tenor as Herod in a new production of Salome conducted by Alexander Soddy. Following triumphant successes as Jim Mahoney at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam This season he can be seen in this role in the new production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Stefan Klingele / Benedikt von Peter).