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 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.

James also returns to Regents' Opera where he starred as Loge in Das Rheingold - this time he will play the Syrian captian of the guard, Narraboth in all performances.

Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/regents-opera