Category:1874 Garden, Mary (singer, dancer) GBR

Mary Garden

Mary Garden (1874-1967) was a Scottish opera singer. In 1909 she created a sensation as Salome in New York, when she performed Richard Strauss's opera (French version) at the Manhattan Opera House, two years after the opera had been banned at the Metropolitan. Her lascivious kiss of the severed head of John the Baptist shocked the morals of a number of the audience members even more than her Dance of the Seven Veils (which she performed herself in a bodystocking without requiring a substitute, as was commonly done at the time). She reprised the part of Salome in Philadelphia, and then in 1910 in Paris at the local premiere of the French version of the opera and back to the States, in Boston, and Chicago.

Works

Acting

• Salome (music) & (dance)
  • Salomé, French ed. (Salome / 1909 Garden / @1905 Strauss), New York (Manhattan) production
  • Salomé, French ed. (Salome / 1910 Messager, Garden / @1905 Strauss), Paris production (opera)

Biography

• Wiki.en