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

ALEXANDER SODDY conducts “Salome” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with 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 make his debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Salome and return to some of the houses where he has become a fixture, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Fidelio, the Berlin State Opera with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore, and Kurtag's Fin de Partie, the Metropolitan Opera with Aida and La Bohème, and, for the first time in several years, the Hamburg State Opera with Salome.

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