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Aug 21, 2019 · The preface contains a reproduction of the composer’s earliest thinking about the score: his annotations in the margins of a copy of Wilde’s play “Salomé,” which was first published in 1893, in...
Apr 24, 2020 · Strauss composed his Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) in 1889 and conducted the premiere at the Eisenach Festival in 1890. In 1908, French critic Romain Rolland called it “one of the most moving works of Strauss... constructed with the noblest utility.”.
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 as "a live volcano, a subterranean fire".
Max Reinhardt successfully staged Salome in Berlin in a German translation by Hedwig Lachmann. Strauss saw the play in early 1903 and almost immediately resolved to use the Lachmann translation with only slight changes and omissions as the libretto of a new one-act opera. Strauss began work on Salome as he finished his orchestral symphony ...
With “Salome”, Strauss navigates the precarious balance between the lush, romantic harmonies of the late 19th century and the more dissonant, avant-garde sounds that were beginning to emerge. Dance of Desire and Despair. The story of “Salome” is one fraught with lust, manipulation, and tragedy.
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.
Strauss wrote Salome from August 1903 through September 1904 and completed the scoring in August 1905. Given his temperate propensities to that point, many observers have wondered at the depths from which Strauss suddenly summoned the acute caustic spur for Salome (and its equally jarring successor, Elektra [1908]).
