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The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his 1905 opera Salome, the international success of which has tended to overshadow Wilde's original play. Film and other adaptations have been made of the play. Background and first production.
- Oscar Wilde
- 11 February 1896
- 1894
- Tragedy
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. [1] The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils".
- German
- 9 December 1905, Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden
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In 1905, Richard Strauss used Wilde’s play as the basis for his opera Salomé. The story is based upon the biblical account of John the Baptist’s death, in which the daughter of Queen Herodias supposedly demanded his head on a platter as payment for a dance.
Skaggs also discusses in her essay "Modernity's Revision of the Dancing Daughter: The Salome Narrative of Wilde and Strauss” the possible homosexual subtext of Wilde's play. Skaggs points to one instance in the play when Salome promises Narraboth a flower, a signal of homosexuality in Wilde's time.
Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salomé (published 1893; first performed 1896) was translated by Hedwig Lachmann as the libretto for Richard Strauss’s one-act opera of the same name (first produced 1905), in which Herod is portrayed as lusting after Salome, while Salome, in her turn, desires John the Baptist; she….
Sep 25, 2013 · Now bear in mind that when Strauss, in 1903, began to consider Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in operatic terms , his series of tone poems (his orchestral masterpieces) was finished.
Salome also had inspired Hériodiade, an 1881 opera by Jules Massenet, its libretto a heavily romanticized adaptation of the Flaubert account. This time it is Salome who is enamored of John, who comforts her while she is in exile following the marriage of Herodias to Herod, who, in turn, is in love with Salome.
