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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. [1] The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils".
Salomé is a 1908 opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the 1891 French play Salome by Oscar Wilde. However, that work was itself inspired by Flaubert 's Herodias . Mariotte began to compose his opera before the far more famous treatment of the same source by German composer Richard Strauss ( Salome ), but his premiered ...
The dance first appeared in film in 1908 in a Vitagraph production entitled Salome, or the Dance of the Seven Veils. [6] Brigid Bazlen as Salomé in the biblical epic King of Kings (1961). In the 1953 film Salome, Rita Hayworth performs the dance as a strip dance. She stops the dance before removing her last veil when she sees John's head being ...
Alice Guszalewicz as Salome in the Richard Strauss opera, c. 1910. [n 1] Salome by Oscar Wilde, a play written in 1891 and first produced in 1896, has been analysed by numerous literary critics, and has prompted numerous derivatives. The play depicts the events leading to the execution of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) at the instigation of Salome ...
In 1970 she appeared as Gilda with the New Haven Opera Company in a production of Verdi's Rigoletto. She made her professional opera debut as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the New York City Opera in 1978. [5] Several years later, she would voice the Queen of the Night in the Oscar-winning Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman.
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Illustration for Salome, by Manuel Orazi. A biographer of Wilde, Owen Dudley Edwards, comments that the play "is apparently untranslatable into English", citing attempts made by Lord Alfred Douglas, Aubrey Beardsley, Wilde himself revising Douglas's botched effort, Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, Jon Pope, Steven Berkoff and others, and concluding "it demands reading and performance in French to ...
She’s played with an electric stillness by the great Isabelle Huppert in Jean-Paul Salome’s Venice Film Festival Horizons title The Sitting Duck (La Syndicaliste).