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Dance of Salome.Armand Point, 1898. The Dance of the Seven Veils is Salome's dance performed before King Herod Antipas, in modern stage, literature and visual arts. It is an elaboration on the New Testament story of the Feast of Herod and the execution of John the Baptist, which refers to Salome dancing before the king, but does not give the dance a name.
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. 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
Oct 25, 2022 · The Dance of the Seven Veils is the iconic part of Salome where the young princess Salome dances for her step-father in exchange for anything she wants. Hear...
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May 17, 2017 · Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images. American mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry caused a sensation in 1970 when she stripped to just ‘my jewels and perfume’ during the dance of the seven veils, singing ...
Wilde’s central character was Herod. Strauss’s, indisputably, is Salome—“a 16-year-old princess with the voice of Isolde,” he called her. He completed the musical sketch during his 1904 summer holiday and finished the full score on June 20, 1905. The last part to be written was the Dance of the Seven Veils, often decried as the ...
Oct 24, 2018 · Learn more about Salome’s Dance (also known as The Dance of the Seven Veils) from Strauss’s scandalous opera Salome in this post. Richard Strauss, photographed in 1910. One day in 1905, Richard Strauss walked into a piano shop with Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma. He had just finished his opera Salome, and was eager to share it with them ...
