Search results
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 ...
Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play in Max Reinhardt 's production at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on 15 November 1902, [2] and immediately set to work on an opera. The play's formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation.
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 ...
Salome was not performed at the Vienna State Opera until 1918. Strauss’s employer in Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, remarked that Salome would do its composer harm. Strauss’s famous retort—that the “harm” enabled him to build his villa in Garmisch—betrays how successful the opera was—both as a coruscating and sensational score and as ...
Sep 12, 2022 · General informations. Composer: Richard Strauss. Librettist:Hedwig Lachmann. Creation date:1905. Creation place:Germany. Acts number:5. Reference:op.54. Original language:German. Opera House of original production:Festival de Menton.
Dec 9, 2017 · Richard Strauss’ “Salome,” adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde, first premiered on December 9 th, 1905. The opera shocked not only the audiences, but many of the original performers as well, due to its themes which blend the violent and erotic within a Christian biblical setting.
People also ask
Who wrote the opera Salomé?
Who wrote Salome Op 54?
When did 'Salome' come out?
Who wrote 'Salome' based on?
Nov 18, 2021 · Possibly Strauss wrote the greatest ecstasy in opera history with the final song of Salome and the orchestral accompaniment. It ends with the famous dissonance on the sforzato, almost at the end of the opera and the C-sharp major resolution that follows. We hear the 1949 version of Ljuba Welitsch.
