Salome review – staging hinders a top-quality cast

Lighthouse, Poole
Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra placed and paced each section with admirable care, but problems of balance with the voices were not resolved in this concert staging of Strauss’s operaKirill Karabits first attracted attention in the UK when he conducted a revival of Eugene Onegin at Glyndebourne in 2008. Opera has remained an important element in his career – next year, he takes over as music director of the Weimar Opera – but so far, at