Eleanor is the Assistant Director for this production of Salome with Regents Opera.
Following the resounding success of its Ring Cycle in 2025, the UK’s leading fringe opera company, Regents Opera, returns to York Hall in 2026 with a bold new staging of Richard Strauss’ explosive masterpiece Salome, conducted by Ben Woodward and directed by Mark Ravenhill, in an arrangment by Nigel Shore, with choreography by Aletta Collins.
With two sensational casts led by Eleanor Dennis and Kirsty Taylor-Stokes, and performed in the historic East End home of British boxing, Salome will be one of the most unusual operatic experiences of the year. Set in a surreal East London underworld, Salome is reimagined as a darkly comic feast dripping in gangland glamour. The audience will step into the world of ‘King’ Herod where they will witness the grisly, seductive unravelling of one of opera’s greatest female characters.
Content warnings: partial nudity, and themes of sex and violence. Strictly 12+ only.
Running time: 90 minutes with no interval
Sung in German with English surtitles
CAST and CREATIVES
10th, 18th and 21st April Cast:
SALOME Kirsty Taylor-Stokes
HERODES Robin Whitehouse
HERODIAS Mae Heydorn
JOCHANAAN Freddie Tong
THE PAGE Jess Ouston
11th, 19th, and 23rd April Cast:
SALOME Eleanor Dennis
HERODES John Upperton
HERODIAS Deborah Humble
JOCHANAAN Joseph Gansert
THE PAGE Natasha Elliott
All shows:
NARRABOTH James Schouten
JEWS Davide Basso, Howard Hutt, Jonathan Finney, Dominick Felix, Andrew Tinkler
NAZARENES Felix Kemp, Adam Sullivan
SOLDIERS Jacob Ng, Felix Kemp
A CAPPADOCIAN Gerard Delrez
A SLAVE Annabel Bigland
Creatives
DIRECTOR Mark Ravenhill
CONDUCTOR Ben Woodward
CHOREOGRAPHER Aletta Collins
SCENIC DESIGNER Hannah Schmidt
LIGHTING DESIGNER Azusa Ono
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Eleanor Strutt