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'''La tragédie de Salomé, op. 50''' <French> / ''The Tragedy of Salome'' (1907) is a ballet by [[Florent Schmitt]] (mus.).
[[File:Salome Rubinstein 1919.jpg|thumb|200px|Ida Rubinstein as [[Salome]] (Paris, 1919)]]
[[File:Tragedy Salome 1919.jpg|thumb|150px|''La tragédie de Salomé'' (Paris, 1919)]]
 
'''La tragédie de Salomé, op. 50''' <French> / ''The Tragedy of Salome'' (1907) is a ballet music by [[Florent Schmitt]] (mus.).


==Abstract==
==Abstract==


Composed in 1907 as a ballet, ''La tragédie de Salomé'' is Florent Schmitt’s most famous composition. Today, it is is more often performed as a symphonic suite, according to the version that Schmitt himself prepared in 1910.  
Composed in 1907 as ballet music, ''La tragédie de Salomé'' is Florent Schmitt’s most famous composition. Today, it is more often performed as a symphonic suite, in the shortened version that Schmitt himself prepared in 1910.


Premiered in Paris, France: Théâtre des Arts, 9 November 1907.
==Editions, premieres==
 
The ballet premiered in Paris, France: Théâtre des Arts, 9 November 1907.
 
The suite premiered in Paris, France: Orchestre Colonne, 8 January 1911. The score was published by Durant in 1912.


==Performance History (ballet)==
==Performance History (ballet)==


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1907 Schmitt / Fuller), Paris premiere (ballet)]], starring [[Loise Fuller]].
==== Paris, 1907 (world premiere) ====
 
* Paris, France: Théâtre des Arts, 9 November 1907.
 
* Choreographie: [[Loie Fuller]]
 
* Starring [[Loie Fuller]] ([[Salome]]); [[J. Zorelli]] ([[Herodias]]); [[M. Gorde]] ([[Herod Antipas]]); [[Lou van Tel]] ([[John the Baptist]]); with [[Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht]] (conductor).  
 
==== Paris, 1912 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1912 @1907 Schmitt / Guerra), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Natasha Trouhanova]]
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1912 @1907 Schmitt / Guerra), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Natasha Trouhanova]]
==== Paris, 1913 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1913 @1907 Schmitt / Romanov), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Tamara Karsavina]]. -- A Ballet Russes production with choreography by Boris Georgevich Romanof -- Paris (France) : Théâtre des Champs-Elysées - 12-06-1913 Contributors : chorégraphie de Boris Romanov (1891-1957); d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes de Serge Soudekine ; régie de Serge Grigoriev ; avec Tamara Karsavina (Salomé) ; chef d'orchestre : Pierre Monteux
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1913 @1907 Schmitt / Romanov), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Tamara Karsavina]]. -- A Ballet Russes production with choreography by Boris Georgevich Romanof -- Paris (France) : Théâtre des Champs-Elysées - 12-06-1913 Contributors : chorégraphie de Boris Romanov (1891-1957); d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes de Serge Soudekine ; régie de Serge Grigoriev ; avec Tamara Karsavina (Salomé) ; chef d'orchestre : Pierre Monteux


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1919 @1907 Schmitt / Guerra), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Ida Rubinstein]] -- Paris (France) : Théâtre national de l'Opéra - Palais Garnier - 01-04-1919 -- Contributors : chorégraphie de Nicolas Guerra ; d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes de René Piot ; avec Ida Rubinstein (Salomé) ; chef d'orchestre : Camille Chevillard
==== Paris, 1919 ====
 
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1919 Guerra / @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Ida Rubinstein]] -- Paris (France) : Théâtre national de l'Opéra - Palais Garnier - 01-04-1919 -- Contributors : chorégraphie de [[Nicholas Guerra]] ; d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes de René Piot ; avec [[Ida Rubinstein]] (Salomé) ; chef d'orchestre : Camille Chevillard
 
==== Paris, 1928 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1928 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Olga Spessivtseva]]  
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1928 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Olga Spessivtseva]]  
==== Paris, 1944 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1944 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet)]]  
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1944 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet)]]  
==== Paris, 1954 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1954 @1907 Schmitt / Aveline), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Lycette Darsonval]] -- 1954 (Paris): Théâtre national de l'Opéra - Palais Garnier - 15-12-1954 -- Contributors : chorégraphie d'Albert Aveline ; d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes d'Yves Brayer ; avec Lycette Darsonval (Salomé), Paulette Dynalix (Hérodiade) ; direction d'orchestre Robert Blot
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1954 @1907 Schmitt / Aveline), Paris production (ballet)]], starring [[Lycette Darsonval]] -- 1954 (Paris): Théâtre national de l'Opéra - Palais Garnier - 15-12-1954 -- Contributors : chorégraphie d'Albert Aveline ; d'après un poème de Robert d'Humières ; musique de Florent Schmitt ; décors et costumes d'Yves Brayer ; avec Lycette Darsonval (Salomé), Paulette Dynalix (Hérodiade) ; direction d'orchestre Robert Blot
==== Florence, 1973 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1973 @1907 Schmitt / Gai), Florence production (ballet)]], starring [[Carla Fracci]] -- 1973 (Florence) Maggio Musical Fiorentino  
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1973 @1907 Schmitt / Gai), Florence production (ballet)]], starring [[Carla Fracci]] -- 1973 (Florence) Maggio Musical Fiorentino  
==== St. Petersburg, 2013 ====


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 2013 @1907 Schmitt / Faski), St. Petersburg production (ballet)]] -- 2013 (Russia): Mariinsky Ballet’s production (Russia)
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 2013 @1907 Schmitt / Faski), St. Petersburg production (ballet)]] -- 2013 (Russia): Mariinsky Ballet’s production (Russia)
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==Performance History (suite)==
==Performance History (suite)==


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1914 Muck / @1907 Schmitt), New York (Carnegie) performance (suite)]] -- New York premiere -- Carnegie 10 January 1907 -- Boston Symphony Orchestra -- Karl Muck, Conductor
There is only one recording is the original 1907 version--by [[Patrick Davin]] in 1991. Commonly, to be presented in concert is the shortened 1910 version. The suite premiered in concert in Paris in 1911, under the baton of [[Gabriel Pierné]], who curiously in 1895 had himself composed a Salome ballet. Even since, the suite has been often performed and recorded in Europe and the United States.
 
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1911 Pierné / @1907 Schmitt), Paris performance, world premiere (suite)]] -- Orchestre Colonne -- Paris 8 January 1911 -- Gabriel Pierné, Conductor
 
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1914 Muck / @1907 Schmitt), New York (Carnegie) performance (suite)]] -- New York premiere -- Carnegie 10 January 1914 -- Boston Symphony Orchestra -- Karl Muck, Conductor


* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1919 Monteux / @1907 Schmitt), New York (Carnegie) performance (suite)]] -- New York performance -- Carnegie 6 December 1919 -- Boston Symphony Orchestra -- Pierre Monteux, Conductor
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1919 Monteux / @1907 Schmitt), New York (Carnegie) performance (suite)]] -- New York performance -- Carnegie 6 December 1919 -- Boston Symphony Orchestra -- Pierre Monteux, Conductor
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* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 2010 Tortelier / @1907 Schmitt), sound recording (suite)]] -- Orquesta Sinfónica do Estado de São Paulo, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, conductor.  Recorded July 5-9, 2010, Júlio Prestes Cultural Center (São Paulo)
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 2010 Tortelier / @1907 Schmitt), sound recording (suite)]] -- Orquesta Sinfónica do Estado de São Paulo, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, conductor.  Recorded July 5-9, 2010, Júlio Prestes Cultural Center (São Paulo)
==== Adaptations ====
* [[La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1907 Schmitt), suite (music)]]


==External links==
==External links==
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[[Category:Music--1900s|1907 Schmitt]]
[[Category:Music--1900s|1907 Schmitt]]
[[Category:Ballets|1907 Schmitt]]
[[Category:Dance--1900s|1907 Schmitt]]


[[Category:French language--1990s|1995 Putignano]]
[[Category:French language--1990s|1995 Putignano]]

Latest revision as of 10:24, 29 August 2021

Ida Rubinstein as Salome (Paris, 1919)
La tragédie de Salomé (Paris, 1919)

La tragédie de Salomé, op. 50 <French> / The Tragedy of Salome (1907) is a ballet music by Florent Schmitt (mus.).

Abstract

Composed in 1907 as ballet music, La tragédie de Salomé is Florent Schmitt’s most famous composition. Today, it is more often performed as a symphonic suite, in the shortened version that Schmitt himself prepared in 1910.

Editions, premieres

The ballet premiered in Paris, France: Théâtre des Arts, 9 November 1907.

The suite premiered in Paris, France: Orchestre Colonne, 8 January 1911. The score was published by Durant in 1912.

Performance History (ballet)

Paris, 1907 (world premiere)

  • Paris, France: Théâtre des Arts, 9 November 1907.

Paris, 1912

Paris, 1913

Paris, 1919

Paris, 1928

Paris, 1944

Paris, 1954

Florence, 1973

St. Petersburg, 2013

Performance History (suite)

There is only one recording is the original 1907 version--by Patrick Davin in 1991. Commonly, to be presented in concert is the shortened 1910 version. The suite premiered in concert in Paris in 1911, under the baton of Gabriel Pierné, who curiously in 1895 had himself composed a Salome ballet. Even since, the suite has been often performed and recorded in Europe and the United States.

External links