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German. Premiere. 9 December 1905. ( 1905-12-09) Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden. Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann 's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer.
Sep 25, 2013 · Salome – The Story and Music. Two musical masterpieces open with an ascending clarinet scale which immediately establishes the mood for what is to come. In George Gershwin’s 1924 Rhapsody in Blue, the opening clarinet lick takes us inside a smoke-filled dive in New Orleans, where the alcohol may well be brewing in an upstairs bath, but ...
Aug 21, 2019 · Alex Ross writes about Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome,” whose staggeringly original score, unsettling sexual and racial politics, and disjointed scale effectively raised the curtain on ...
This image appears in the gallery: Richard Strauss: 15 facts about the great composer. 8. Salome (1905) In 1905, Strauss created Salome, a musically difficult modern opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde. It produced a passionate reaction from audiences and Strauss's contemporaries. Ravel said that it was "stupendous" and Mahler described it ...
Mahler first saw Salome in Berlin in 1907, when he attended two performances within a few days. “One of the greatest masterpieces of our time,” he wrote to his wife. “It is the voice of the ‘earth-spirit’ speaking from the heart of genius.”. This was Mahler’s way of saying that he recognized that the opera’s subject was sex.
Oct 31, 2023 · Synopsis. Herod, the superstitious puppet-ruler of the Roman province of Judaea, has married his brother’s wife, Herodias. Soon afterwards, Herod had his brother assassinated. Now he is becoming increasingly obsessed with his step-daughter, Salome. Reports of these events have brought Herod and Herodias into conflict with the equally ...
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Salome made the composer very rich. Kaiser Wilhelm once remarked that Salome would do Strauss a great deal of harm. This ‘harm’, Strauss noted in a diary, allowed him to build his lavish Villa Strauss in Garmisch, Bavaria. Although Strauss lived and worked at the villa for the rest of his life, he was nearly evicted twice during the war ...
