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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 ...
The first official soprano role was Salome by Richard Strauss at the Royal Opera House in 1970. [1] [4] [6] She first appeared as Puccini's Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in 1971, and then at La Scala in 1974. [1] Later roles at the Metropolitan Opera included Leonora in both Il trovatore and La forza del destino and Bess in Gershwin's Porgy ...
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In 1985 she made her operatic debut as the voice of Antonia's Mother in San Diego Opera's production of The Tales of Hoffmann starring Nelly Miricioiu, James Morris, Judith Forst and conducted by Theo Alcántara and has sung as a principal artist in nearly every season since then until her most recent performance of the Page in Salome with Lise ...
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 began her career as a mezzo-soprano but became a soprano in April 2005. [2] Michael has appeared at La Scala (Salome, 2007), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Salome, 2008), [3] Vienna State Opera (), Arena di Verona, Glyndebourne, Salzburg, Munich (Macbeth and Medea in Corinto), Brussels (Médée, 2008), Chicago (Macbeth, 2010), Berlin (Wozzeck, under Daniel Barenboim, 2011), and San ...