RICHARD STRAUSS - SALOME

Sydney Opera SALOME, March 2019

Andreas Conrad’s singing, accurate and well characterised, made the tetrarch's delirious fears of winds, his lecherous longing for his stepdaughter and the reluctant order of beheading the prophet truly part of Herod’s personality.

www.backtrack.com ;  Soltán Szabó, 08 March 2019

Edwards' production aptly balances the decadence of Salome with the depravity of Herod. Andreas Conrad sang the latter part with leering edge touched with excitable frustration.

Sydney Morning Herald, March 7, 2019


“Andreas Conrad and Jacqueline Dark are an appropriately terrifying pairing as Herod and Herodias – drunk on power and drunk from the lavish feast they’re in the midst of. Conrad brings all of his character’s arrogance to life, while Dark, returning to a role for which she won a Helpmann Award….”

www.timeout.com, Ben Neutze, 07.03.2019