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Works of music on Salome

Overview

Richard Strauss's Salome premiered in Dresden in 1905 (with Marie Wittich in the title role), and then in 1906, in Berlin with Emmy Destinn. In spite of the composer's invitation to look at the opera as nothing more than "a scherzo with a fatal conclusion," many regarded it as a gruesome middlebrow entertainment. When the opera opened at the New York Metropolitan Opera on 22 January 1907, accusations of vulgarity and indecency led to the cancellation of the show and the opera would not be performed again at the Met until 1934.

And yet, Strauss's Salome was a stunning and unstoppable success. Aino Ackté played Salome in the 1907 Leipzig premiere as well as in the 1910 London premiere. In spite of the Met's boycott, the Salome-mania hit New York in 1909 with Mary Garden.

Among famous Salomes are <Mary Garden (1900s); Aino Ackté (1910s);> Emmy Destinn, Maria Jeritza, Maria Cebotari, Christle Goltz, Birgitt Nilsson, Josephine Barstow, Hildegard Behrens, Catherine Malfitano, <Maria Ewing (1980s); Karita Mattila and Nadja Michael (2000s)>, Probably the most famous of all was the Bulgarian soprano Ljuba Welitsch, who sang it in the presence of the composer at a performance given to mark his 80th birthday in Vienna in 1944.

Performing Salome (opera)

|- |1957||Helga Pilarczyk || Salome (1957 Goehr, Pilarczyk / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) || |- |1974||Teresa Stratas (b.1938), Canadian singer|| Salome (1974 Böhm, Stratas / Friedrich / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera), by Richard Strauss (mus.) || |- |1979||Montserrat Caballé (b.1933), Spanish singer|| Salome (1979 Rudel, Caballé / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera), by Richard Strauss (mus.) || |}

Hérodiade (Herodias / 1984 Delacôte / @1881 Massenet), video recording (opera) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1987 Prêtre / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera)

Bibliography

• Richard Strauss's Salome: which recording is best?

Performing Salome (dance)