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Salome (1st century CE) was the daughter of Herodias and Herod II, and the step-daughter of Herod Antipas.

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Overview

From the historical point of view, Salome is part of the scion of powerful and politically engaged women that characterized the House of Hasmoneus (and the House of Herod), from Queen Salome Alexandra to Alexandra the Hasmonean, Mariamne, Herodias, Berenice, Drusilla, and others.

Josephus introduces Salome as the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. Her paternal grandparents were Herod the Great and Mariamne II, while another son of Herod the Great, Aristobulus IV and his wife Berenice I were her maternal grandparents. She was thus related to both the House of Herod and the House of Hasmoneus.

After her mother's divorce and remarriage, Salome grew up as the step-daughter of her uncle Herod Antipas. Some legendary Christian accounts narrate of her involvement in the death of John the Baptist.

Still an adolescent, Salome was given as wife to her uncle Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great. A young widow, she remarried with Aristobulus of Chalcis, from whom she had three sons named Herod, Agrippa and Aristobulus (see Ant XVIII 136-137).

Nothing else is known about her life and death.

Research on Salome however is limited by the paucity of historical sources and the legendary nature of the Gospel account. Scholars have rather focused on the study of the Salome legend and its ramifications in literature and the arts.

Salome, in fiction

The character of Salome has been subjected in fiction to a dramatic metamorphosis, from innocent child or indifferent teenager to powerful icon of morbid female seductiveness (and anti-Semitism). Salome is one of the most successful and recognizable characters from Second Temple Judaism in modern culture.

In medieval Christian iconography, Salome is portrayed as an innocent child, the passive instrument of her mother's revenge. By the 16th century, the character has matured into a teenager, now more indifferent than innocent to the drama in which she has been involved. The turning point is the second half of the 19th century when Salome is transformed into an Oriental beauty, fully self-conscious of her power of seduction. In the works of Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss she becomes the epitome of the femme fatale, a sensual, morbid and sadistic character who destroys the men she loves.


Salome, in ancient sources

The character of Salome is mentioned both in Josephus and in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew.

The Gospels of Mark and Matthew (which do not mention her name or any other incidents in her life) suggest her (involuntary) involvement in the death of John the Baptist. They tell us that as a girl she danced before her uncle (and now step-father) Herod Antipas. At the instigation of her mother Herodias, she requested and obtained the head of John the Baptist as her reward from the king.

Josephus (who does not mention Salome in his account of the death of John the Baptist), in a genealogical list of the descendants of Herod the Great, talks briefly of her life as the daughter of Herod II and Herodias, and the step-daughter of Herod Antipas after her mother's divorce and remarriage. Salome was given as wife to her uncle Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great. A young widow, she remarried with Aristobulus of Chalcis, from whom she had three sons named Herod, Agrippa and Aristobulus (see Ant XVIII 136-137).

The story of Salome and her involvement in the death of John the Baptist is repeated also in Islamic traditions.


Salome, in visual arts

The image of Salome in visual arts changes dramatically over the centuries. In the earliest representations she is a pretty, innocent girl. Then gradually she becomes a young woman (now more indifferent than innocent before the events, which are still determined by her mother, Herodias). At the end of the 19th century she takes central stage. She is now an Oriental beauty and the villain of the story, fully self-conscious of her power of seduction.


Salome, in music

Salome first emerged as a "singing" character in the tradition of the oratorios since the end of the 17th century. The first oratorio to be recorded as having Salome among its characters is San Giovanni Battista (St. John the Baptist / 1675 Stradella / Ansaldi), oratorio. As in all "biblical oratorios," the protagonist is John the Baptist and the plot closely follows the biblical narrative.

Among the most celebrated oratorios dealing with the death of John the Baptist is also Il Batista (1727 Caldara / Zeno), oratorio, which premiered in Vienna in 1727. It is the first of which the name of the interpreter of Salome is recorded--"Signora Helvertin."

The season of the "biblical" oratorios ended with St John the Baptist (1873 Macfarren / Monk), oratorio. The transition to the opera came with Hérodiade (1881). In Jules Massenet's opera the character of Salome takes central stage and a life of her own but still preserves her "biblical" innocence. In the 1880s Hérodiade" was performed in Belgium, Italy, France, Germany and in 1892 reached New Orleans.

Everything changed in 1896 with the premiere in Paris of Salomé (Salome / 1893 Wilde), play. Salome lost her innocence and became the embodiment of the femme fatale who seduces and destroys her lovers. The "Salomania" spread in every corner of Europe and America.

Based on Wilde's play, Richard Strauss's Salome premiered in Dresden on 9 December 1905 (starring Marie Wittich in the title role). It was an immediate success. In 1906 the opera was performed in a dozen theaters, including Graz, Cologne, Berlin (starring Emmy Destinn), Turin, and Milan (under the direction of Arturo Toscanini). 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. In Austria, Russia and other countries the opera was banned even before being performed.

And yet, Strauss's Salome was an unstoppable success. In March 1907 the French version of the opera premiered in Brussels, of which a scaled-down rendition was also given in Paris a few days before the German version opened there at the Théâtre du Châtelet on 8 May 1907 under the direction of the composer. 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 Salomania hit New York again at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Mary Garden.

Among the early interpreters of Strauss's Salome are Göta Ljungberg, Maria Jeritza, Maria Cebotari, and Christle Goltz, 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.

Strauss's Salome is regularly staged in the major opera theaters and is now available also in numerous sound and video recordings, featuring interpreters such as Birgitt Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Hildegard Behrens, Montserrat Caballé, Josephine Barstow, Catherine Malfitano, Maria Ewing, Nadja Michael, Karita Mattila and Angela Denoke.

Although overshadowed by Strauss's Salome, Massenet's Hérodiade has not ceased to be performed and recorded, offering the soprano the intriguing possibility to play the same role in two different operas.

@2017 Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

Performing Salome (opera & oratorio)

Salome has been a singing character in oratorios since the 17th century. The first recorded interpreter of Salome is "Signora Helvertin," who sang the role at the Vienna premiere of Il Batista (1727 Caldara / Zeno), oratorio.

Thanks to Massenet, Strauss and Mariotte, Salome has become a leading character also in the opera, interpreted by the most celebrated sopranos.

Marthe Duvivier and Emma Calvé was the first interpreter of Massenet's Hérodiade.

In 1905 Marie Wittich created the character of Salome in Strauss's opera. Among the early interpreters of Strauss's Salome are Göta Ljungberg, Maria Jeritza, Maria Cebotari, and Christle Goltz, 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.

1950s Performer Opera Notes
1957 Helga Pilarczyk Salome (1957 Goehr, Pilarczyk / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)

1960s Performer Opera Notes
1960 Inge Borkh Salome (1960 Kempe, Borkh / @1905 Strauss), Munich production, sound recording (opera)
1961 Michèle Le Bris Hérodiade (Herodias / 1961 Etcheverry / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera)
1961 Margaret Tynes Salome (1961 Schippers, Tynes / @1905 Strauss), Spoleto production, sound recording (opera)
1961 Birgit Nilsson Salome (1961 Solti, Nilsson / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1963 Suzanne Sarroca Hérodiade (Herodias / 1963 Dervaux / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera)
1963 Régine Crespin Hérodiade (Herodias / 1963 Lombard / @1881 Massenet), New York production, sound recording (opera)
1963 Régine Crespin Hérodiade (Herodias / 1963 Prêtre / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera)
1963 Christel Goltz Salome (1963 Suitner, Goltz / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1965 Birgit Nilsson Salome (1965 Böhm, Nilsson / @1905 Strauss), New York production, sound recording (opera)
1965 Felicia Weathers Salome (1965 Keilberth, Weathers / @1905 Strauss), Munich production, sound recording (opera)
1965 Anja Silja Salome (1965 Kosler, Silja / @1905 Strauss), Vienna production, sound recording (opera)
1965 Birgit Nilsson Salome (1965 Sébastian, Nilsson / @1905 Strauss), Buenos Aires production, sound recording (opera)
1965 Helga Pilarczyk Salome (1965 Varviso, Pilarczyk / @1905 Strauss), Philadelphia production, sound recording (opera)
1967 Birgit Nilsson Salome (1967 Klobucar, Nilsson / @1905 Strauss), Milan production, sound recording (opera)
1967 Anja Silja Salome (1967 Sebastian, Silja / @1905 Strauss), Geneva production, sound recording (opera)
1968 Anja Silja Salome (1968 Krombholc, Silja / @1905 Strauss), Amsterdam production, sound recording (opera)
1968 Montserrat Caballé Salome (1968 Leinsdorf, Caballé / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1969 Paula Bukovac Salome (1969 Wallberg, Bukovac / @1905 Strauss), Venice production, sound recording (opera)

1970s Salome Opera / Ballet Notes
1971 Leonie Rysanek Salome (1971 Leitner, Rysanek / @1905 Strauss), Munich production, sound recording (opera)
1971 Montserrat Caballé Salome (1971 Mehta, Caballé / @1905 Strauss), Orange production, sound recording (opera)
1972 Leonie Rysanek Salome (1972 Böhm, Rysanek / @1905 Strauss), New York production, sound recording (opera)
1972 Leonie Rysanek Salome (1972 Böhm, Rysanek / @1905 Strauss), Vienna production, sound recording (opera)
1974 Teresa Stratas Salome (1974 Böhm, Stratas / Friedrich / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera), by Richard Strauss (mus.)
1974 Leonie Rysanek Salome (1974 Kempe, Rysanek / @1905 Strauss), Orange production, sound recording (opera)
1974 Muriel de Channes Hérodiade (Herodias / 1974 Lloyd-Jones / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera)
1975 Marisa Galvany Hérodiade (Herodias / 1975 Andersson / @1881 Massenet), New Orleans production, sound recording (opera)
1977 Hildegard Behrens Salome (1977 Karajan, Behrens / @1905 Strauss), Salzburg production, sound recording (opera)
1977 [[]] Salome, Daughter of Herodias (1977 Sams / Janer), opera
1977 Eilene Hannan Hérodiade (Herodias / 1977 Stapleton / @1881 Massenet), Wexford production, sound recording (opera)
1978 Vivi Flindt (dancer) Salome (1978 Davies / Flindt), ballet
1979 Montserrat Caballé Salome (1979 Rudel, Caballé / @1905 Strauss), Madrid production, video recording (opera)

1980s Salome Opera Notes
1984 Montserrat Caballé Hérodiade (Herodias / 1984 Delacôte / @1881 Massenet), Barcelona production, video recording (opera)
1987 Leona Mitchell Hérodiade (Herodias / 1987 Prêtre / @1881 Massenet), Nice production, sound recording (opera)

1990s Salome Opera Notes
1990 Jessye Norman Salome (1990 Ozawa, Norman / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1990 Cheryl Studer Salome (1990 Sinopoli, Studer / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1991 Catherine Malfitano Salome (1991 Sinopoli, Malfitano / Weigl, Large / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)
1991 Karen Huffstodt Salome, French ed. (1991 Nagano, Huffstodt / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera)
1992 Maria Ewing Salome (1992 Downes, Ewing / Bailey / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)
1994 Renée Fleming Hérodiade (Herodias / 1994 Gergiev / @1881 Massenet), San Francisco production, sound recording (opera)
1994 Cheryl Studer Hérodiade (Herodias / 1994 Plasson / @1881 Massenet), Toulouse production, sound recording (opera)
1995 Renée Fleming Hérodiade (Herodias / 1995 Queler / @1881 Massenet), New York production, sound recording (opera)
1995 Nancy Gustafson Hérodiade (Herodias / 1995 Viotti / @1881 Massenet), Vienna production, sound recording (opera)
1997 Catherine Malfitano Salome (1997 Dohnányi, Malfitano / Bondy, Hulscher / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)

2000s Salome Opera Notes
2001 Alexia Cousin Hérodiade (Herodias / 2001 Fournillier / @1881 Massenet), Saint-Étienne production, video recording (opera)
2002 Barbara Haveman Hérodiade (Herodias / 2002 Lacombe / @1881 Massenet), Liege production, sound recording (opera)
2005 Kate Aldrich Salomé (2005 Layer / @1908 Mariotte), Montpellier production, sound recording (opera) Wiki]
2008 Nadja Michael Salome (2008 Jordan, Michael / McVicar / @1905 Strauss), London production, video recording (opera) Wiki.en
2008 Karita Mattila Salome (2008 Summers, Mattila / Sweete / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera), , by Richard Strauss (mus.) Wiki.en

2010s Salome Opera Notes
2010 ??? Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre Presents: Salome (2010 Johnson / @1905 Strauss), TV film (opera) [ Wiki.en]
2010 Erika Sunnegårdh Salome (2010 Luisotti, Sunnegårdh / Lavia, Bevilacqua / @1905 Strauss), Bologna production, video recording (opera)
2012 Angela Denoke (s.) Salome (2012 Soltesz, Denoke / Lehnhoff / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera), by Richard Strauss (mus.) Wiki.en
2014 Anna Maria Thoma Salomé (2014 Kovalik / @1908 Mariotte), Munich production, sound recording (opera)
2014 Na’ama Goldman Salomé (2014 Angus / @1908 Mariotte), Wexford production (opera)

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Salome, in dance

In the Gospel narrative the unnamed daughter of Herodias (Salome) "danced" before her uncle (and now step-father) Herod Antipas. He was so pleased to grant her any wishes, including the head of John the Baptist. Christian iconography represented the scene. Hence, whoever performs Salome is expected to be a dancer (at least, also a dancer), even when she is primarily an actress or a singer.

In 1895 Loie Fuller was the first solo dancer to present a Salome piece and she did it in line with the "biblical" view of Salome as an innocent child. But the great success of Oscar Wilde's play (in Paris [1896] and Berlin [1902]) and Richard Strauss's opera (Berlin [1905]) changed radically the popular view of Salome, from innocent chid to femme fatale.

In Wilde and Strauss the dance of Salome became the epitome of her seductiveness. The "colonial" fashion and prejudice of the time made them to reimagine her dance as a lascivious "Oriental" dance--the Dance of the Seven Veils. Both classical and vaudeville dancers contributed to create the tragic character of a seductive and perverse woman that ultimately destroys herself with the object of her own desires. They offered solo performances, or substituted actresses and singers who were unable or unwilling (for reasons of decency) to perform the Dance of the Seven Veils. And when professional dancers were not involved, actresses and singers turned into dancers, offering some remarkable dancing performances on stage or on the screen.

The Salome craze, or Salomania (as it was renamed by Percival Polland in the New York Time in late August 1908), reached its peak in the years 1907-09, when the Dance of Salome attracted the attention of the most famous ballerinas, becoming for some time a fever that spread in all Europe and the United States. It started in Europe with The Vision of Salome by Canadian-American dancer Maud Allan, which premiered in Vienna in December 1906 and then appeared in some of the major European theaters, in Budapest, Berlin, Marienbad, finally to triumph at the Palace Theatre in London in March 1908. In line with the new identity of femme fatale of the character, in November 1907 Loise Fuller performed in Paris a very different Salome from her first work on the subject, on music specifically composed by Florent Schmitt.

In the meantime, Strauss's Salome had been first performed in New York on 22 January 1907. As was common practice, dancer Bianca Froelich substituted soprano Olive Fremstad during Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils. Her realistic performance contributed to the scandal and the show was cancelled within days. By public demand, Froelich immediately began performing her opera choreography at the Lincoln Square Variety Theater before wildly enthusiastic audiences. Almost overnight, all Oriental dancers in the vaudeville became "Salome dancers". The film If You Had a Wife Like This, released on 23 May 1907, included a "Salome Dance" and so did the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907, performed by Mdlle. Dazie. The show opened on 9 July 1907 at the Jardin de Paris in New York.

The scandal of the New York premiere and the success of these early performances by Bianca Froelich and Mdlle. Dazie inspired Gertrude Hoffman to offer her own interpretation of the Vision of Salome. In April 1908 she traveled to England with her husband with the specific goal of getting Allan's dance, which was enjoying a lasting success in London. On 13 July 1908 Gertude Hodffman's show opened at Hammerstein's Paradise Garden Roof Theater. It was an overnight sensation and every vaudeville theatre staged its own Salome dance. In the Summer 1908 newspapers and journals in the United States denounced an outbreak of "The Salome Epidemic": "There are no many dancers appearing as the daughter of Herodias that it is impossible to make more than a guess at their number. There is hardly a vaudeville house that cannot boast its own Salome, whether it be Hammerstein's Roof Garden, the Casino, the Alhambra, or a third or four class hall" (The Sketch 63 [1908] 345). Among the most celebrated American vaudeville dancers to specialize as "Salome dancers" were Hilde Caroll, La Sylphe, Lotta Faust, Vera Olcott (Theatre Unique), Eva Tanguay, La Belle Zola, La Petite Adelaide, and Aida Overton Walker. The cinema's contribution to "Salomania" included in 1908 lavish performances by Florence Lawrence and Stacia Napierkowska. When in 1909 Strauss's Salome returned at New York at the Manhattan Opera House, it was a triumph. Enthusiastic audiences rushed to see soprano Mary Garden performing herself a much daring version of the Dance of the Seven Veils.

Even when the "epidemic" was over, Salome remained a fashionable presence on stage and on screen. New productions of Schmitt's ballet were performed in Paris in the 1910s and 1920s. In 1912 in a private performance at Palazzo Barberini before the Prince of San Faustino, Mata Hari used the Strauss music and played a topless and laughing Salome. On the screen, some of most popular actresses competed to offer the definitive portrait of Salome, including Vittoria Lepanto (1910), Theda Bara (1918), and Alla Nazimova (1922).

After some pause in the 1930s, the story of Salome once again returned to be an inspiring force for dancers and choreographers in the late 1940s.

Many famous choreographers have recreated Salomé's Dance of the Seven Veils for productions of either the Wilde play or the Strauss opera, including Maurice Bejart, Mark Morris (Seattle Opera, 1986), and Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera, 2004). Some have created solo performances or ballets, based on the music of Strauss or other musicians who like Florent Schmitt, have composed music specifically for the Salome dance.

Following the example of Mary Garden, some sopranos have distinguished themselves not only for their vocal skill but also as celebrated performers of the Dance of the Seven Veils. Among them are Ljuba Welitsch (in the 1940s), Maria Ewing (in the 1980s), Catherine Malfitano (in the 1990s), Karita Mattila and Nadja Michael (in the 2000s).

Among the most notable actresses to perform Salome as a dancer on screen are Rita Hayworth and Brigid Bazlen. Only in Pasolini's film The Gospel according to Matthew (1964), Salome, played by 12-year-old Paola Tedesco, was allowed to return an innocent child, playing an innocent, joyful dance before her parents, unaware of the consequences of her action.

While the two typologies of Salome, innocent child or perverse seductress, continue to coexist, in more recent decades a third typology has emerged in some productions that have given a homosexual understanding of the story.

In an interview published by Solomon Volkov in 1985, two years after the death of the choreographer, George Balanchine stated that he always believed that Oscar Wilde was "thinking of a pretty boy" when he wrote of Salome. The first production of Salome to play up a transvestite angle was the Italian film director Luchino Visconti's production of Strauss's opera at the Spoleto Festival in 1961, under the baton of Thomas Schippers. There the Dance of the Seven Veils was performed not by the soprano (Margaret Tynes) or a dancer, but by a group of young men. Choreographers Lyndsay Kemp in 1977 and Maurice Bejart in 1983 even more explicitly linked the character of Salome to transvestitism by adapting the role for a male dancer. Russell's film Salome's Last Dance (1987) located the representation of Wilde's work in an all-male brothel, revealing at the climax of the Dance of the Seven Veils that the "female" protagonist (Imogen Millais-Scott) was transgender.

Other versions of the story were choreographed by

Bibliography

  • Marlis Schweitzer, "The Salome Epidemic: Degeneracy, Disease, and Race Suicide," in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater (Oxford 2015), pp.
  • Debra Craine, and Judith Mackrell (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, 2010.
  • Clair Rowden (ed.), Performing Salome, Revealing Stories (Routledge, 2013)
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  • Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome (New Haven, 2002).
  • William Tydeman and Steven Price, Wilde: Salome (Cambridge, 1996), 136–51
  • Richard Bizot, "The Turn-of-the-Century Salome Era: High- and Pop-Culture Variations on the Dance of the Seven Veils," Choreography and Dance 2 (1992) 71–87
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  • "The Vulgarization of Salome," Current Literature 45 (1908) 437-440

Oriental dance

Salome's dance

Salome, in cinema

Salome is a marginal character in ancient sources (to the extent of being unnamed in the Gospel narratives). In fiction, however, she took a life of her own, gradually becoming the protagonist of the events related to the Death of John the Baptist. When the new art of cinematography started, the "Salomania" was at its peak after the 1893 play by Oscar Wilde and the 1905 opera by Richard Strauss. Salome entered the movies not as a marginal presence but as the protagonist of a long series of films that offered the most famous actresses (and dancers) a vehicle to show their charm and power of seduction.

Sound cinema has had less to offer. The most ambitious attempt at building an original series of events around Salome was made in 1953 with the epic Salome with Rita Hayworth. Most of the Salome movies are video-recordings of the Wilde or Strauss work.

Salome is conspicuously absent in the major Jesus movies with a few exceptions, notably, King of Kings (1961), Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964). Salome must not be confused with Mary Salome, one of the Three Marys, a character often billed simply as "Salome" in many Jesus movies.

Performing Salome (cinema & television)

1850s Salome Opera Notes
1881 Marthe Duvivier (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1881 Massenet / Dupont), Brussels premiere (opera) Music -- Premiere of the Massenet opera in Brussels, Belgium.
1882 Medea Borelli (singer) Erodiade, Italian ed. (Herodias / 1882 @1881 Massenet / Faccio), Milan production (opera) Music -- Milan (and Italian) premiere of the Massenet opera.
1884 Fidès Devriès (singer) Erodiade, Italian ed. (Herodias / 1884 @1881 Massenet / Gialdini), Paris production (opera) Music -- Premiere of the revised version of the Massenet opera.
1886 Elisa Frandin (singer) Erodiade, Italian ed. (Herodias / 1886 @1881 Massenet / Mascheroni), Bologna production (opera) Music -- Italian premiere of the Revised version of the Massenet opera.
1892 Marthe Duvivier (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1892 @ 1881 Massenet), New Orleans production (opera) Music -- American premiere of the Massenet opera.
1895 Loie Fuller (dancer) Salome (1895 Sylvestre, Pierné, Fuller), ballet Dance -- Premiere of the Sylvestre ballet.
1896 Lina Munte (actress) Salomé (1896 @1893 Wilde / Lugné-Poe), Paris premiere (play) Theatre -- Premiere in Paris of the Wilde play at the Comédie-Parisienne on 11 February, 1896.

1900s Salome Cinema Country
1902 Tilla Durieux (actress) / Gertrud Eysoldt (actress) Salome (1902 @1893 Wilde / Reinhardt), Berlin production (play) Theatre -- Berlin premiere of the Wilde play.
1903 Emma Calvé (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1903 @1881 Massenet / Luigini), Paris production (opera) Music -- Paris premiere of the revised version in French of the Massenet opera.
1904 Emma Calvé (singer) Salomé = Hérodiade (Herodias / 1904 @1881 Massenet / Lohse), London production (opera) Music -- London premiere of the revised version of the Massenet opera.
1905 Marie Wittich (singer) Salome (1905 Schuch, Wittich / @1905 Strauss), Dresden production, world premiere (opera) Music -- Dresden premiere (9 December 1905) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Fanchette Verhunk (singer) Salome (1906 Prüwer, Verhunk / @1905 Strauss), Breslau production (opera) Music -- Breslau premiere (1906) and Vienna premiere (15 May 1907) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Jenny Korb (singer) Salome (1906 Strauss, Korb / @1905 Strauss), Graz production (opera) Music -- Graz premiere (16 May 1906) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Paula Doenges (singer) Salome (1906 Hagel, Doenges / @1905 Strauss), Leipzig production (opera) Music -- Leipzig premiere (25 May 1906) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Alice Guszalewicz (singer) Salome (1906 Strauss, Guszalewicz / @1905 Strauss), Cologne production (opera) Music -- Cologne premiere of the Strauss opera.
1906 Adorée Villany (dancer) Tanz der Salome (Salome's Dance / 1906 Messter), short film Cinema -- Short film, Germany
1906 Maud Allan (dancer) The Vision of Salome (1906 Allan), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance (2 Dec 1906)
1906 Emmy Destinn (singer) Salome (1906 Strauss, Destinn / @1905 Strauss), Berlin production (opera) Music -- Berlin premiere (5 December 1906) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Gemma Bellincioni (singer) Salomè, Italian ed. (Salome / 1906 Strauss, Bellincioni / @1905 Strauss), Turin production (opera) Music -- Turin premiere (23 December 1906) of the Strauss opera.
1906 Solomiya Krushelnytska (singer) Salomè, Italian ed. (Salome / 1906 Toscanini, Krushelnytska / @1905 Strauss), Milan production (opera) Music -- Milan premiere (26 December 1906) of the Strauss opera.
1907 Olive Fremstad (singer)
Bianca Froelich (dancer)
Salome (1907 Hertz, Fremstad / @1905 Strauss), New York (Met) premiere Music -- New York premiere (22 January 1907) of the Strauss opera.
1907 Bianca Froelich (dancer) Salome's Dance (1907 Froelich), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance.
1907 <unknown> Salome (1907 Lubin), short film Cinema -- Short film (USA, February 1907)
1907 ??? Salomé, French ed. (1907 / @1905 Strauss), Brussels production (opera) Music -- Brussels (25 March 1907) & Paris (29 April 1907) premiere of the Strauss opera.
1907 Emmy Destinn (singer)
Natalia Trouhanova (dancer)
Salome (1907 Strauss, Destinn / @1905 Strauss), Paris production (opera) Music -- Paris premiere (8 May 1907) of the Strauss opera.
1907 Emmy Destinn (singer) Salome (1907 Strauss, Destinn / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera) Music -- Recording of excerpts of the Strauss opera.
1907 <unknown> If You Had a Wife Like This (1907 Biograph), short film Cinema - Short film (USA, 23 May 1907).
1907 <unknown> Salome (1907 Gaumont), short film Cinema -- Short film (UK, June 1907)
1907 Mdlle. Dazie (dancer) Salome's Dance (1907 Dazie), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1907 Loie Fuller (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1907 Schmitt / Fuller), Paris premiere (ballet) Dance -- Paris premiere of the Schmitt ballet.
1908 Florence Lawrence (actress & dancer) Salome; or, The Dance of Seven Veils (1908 Blackton), short film Cinema -- Short film, USA
1908 Gertrude Hoffmann (dancer) A Vision of Salome (1908 Hoffmann), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Stacia Napierkowska (actress & dancer) Salomé (1908 Capellani), short film Cinema -- Short film, France
1908 Mlle. De Wailly Salomé (1908 Mariotte / Wilde), opera Music -- Premiere of the Mariotte opera. Lucienne Bréval was Salome in the Paris performances in 1910 and 1919.
1908 La Sylphe (dancer) The Remorse of Salome (1908 La Sylphe), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Vera Olcott (dancer) Salome's Dance (1908 Olcott), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Lotta Faust (dancer) Salome's Dance (1908 Faust), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Aida Overton Walker (dancer) Salome's Dance (1908 Overton Walker), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Eva Tanguay (dancer) Salome's Dance (1908 Tanguay), solo dance Dance -- Solo performance
1908 Ida Rubinstein (dancer) Salome (1908 Fokine, Glazunov), ballet Dance -- Mimed performance at St. Petersburg. Music: Glazunov Set & costumes: Bakst. A single private performance in which the dancer stripped nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
1909 Mary Garden (singer & dancer) Salomé, French ed. (Salome / 1909 Garden / @1905 Strauss), New York (Manhattan) production Music -- Manhattan Opera House production of the Strauss.
1909 Lina Cavalieri (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1909 Fuente / @1881 Massenet), New York production (opera) Music -- New York premiere (Manhattan Opera House) of the Massenet opera.

1910 Salome Film Country Notes
1910 Vittoria Lepanto (actress) Salome (1910 Falena), short film Italy Cinema & Dance
1910 Maria Ventura Hérodiade (Herodias / 1910 Jasset, Hatot), short film Cinema
1910 Lucienne Bréval (singer)
Natalia Trouhanova (dancer)
Salomé (1910 Amalou / @1908 Mariotte), Paris production (opera) France Music & Dance -- (April-May 1910).
1910 Mary Garden (singer) Salomé, French ed. (1910 Messager, Garden / @1905 Strauss), Paris production (opera) France Music & Dance -- Opera (April 1910). The Paris premiere of the French version of the Strauss opera happened just a few weeks after the Paris premiere of Mariotte's Salome. Garden performed herself the Dance of the Seven Veils
1910 Aino Ackté Salome (1910 Beecham, Ackté / @1905 Strauss), London production (opera) England Music -- London premiere of the Strauss opera
1911 Zina Brozia Hérodiade (Herodias / 1911 Amalou / @1881 Massenet), Paris production (opera) Paris production
1912 Suzanne De Labroy Erodiade (Herodias / 1912 Mentasti), short film Italy Cinema -- Imdb
1912 Mata Hari (dancer) Salome's Dance (1912 Hari / @1905 Strauss), ballet Dance
1912 Natalia Trouhanova (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1912 @1907 Schmitt / Guerra), Paris production (ballet) France Dance -- Schmitt revised the score for Natalia Trouhanova in 1912 which was choreographed by Nicholas Guerra.
1913 Tamara Karsarvina (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1913 @1907 Schmitt / Romanov), Paris production (ballet) France Dance -- In 1913 the Diaghilev’s company (Ballets Russes) staged a version with the choreography by Boris Romanov starring Tamara Karsarvina. Decor: Sergei Soudeikine. There was a later production by Serge Lifar.
1916 Stacia Napierkowska La figlia d'Erodiade (The Daughter of Herodias / 1916 Falena), short film Italy Cinema
1917 Alisa Koonen (dancer) Salomé (1917 Mordkin, Gyutel), ballet Russia Theatre? -- Kamerny Thatre, Moscow, 9 October 1917 - Music: Jules Gyutel -- Alisa Koonen (Salome), Ivan Arkadin (Herod Antipas), Nikolai Tseretelli (John the Baptist)
1918 Theda Bara (actress) Salome (1918 Edwards), feature film Cinema & Dance
1919 Pépa Bonafé Redenzione (1919 Gallone, Mateldi), film Italy Imdb
1919 Ida Rubinstein (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1919 @1907 Schmitt / Guerra), Paris production (ballet) France Dance New choreography by Nicholas Guerra.
1919 Lucienne Bréval (singer)
Jeanne Delsaux (dancer)
Salomé (1919 Ruhlmann / @1908 Mariotte), Paris production (opera) France Music & Dance -- Delsaux substituted the soprano in the Dance of the Seven Veils

1920s Salome Cinema Country Notes
1920 [[]] Salomé, vierge folle (Salome, Mad Virgin / 1920 Raphaël), opera Music -- Premiere
1921 Fanny Heldy (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1921 Gaubert / @1881 Massenet), Paris production (opera) France Music -- Paris production (revival) of the Massenet opera.
1921 Aleksandra Balashova (dancer) Salome's Dance (1921 Gorsky / @1905 Strauss), ballet Russia Dance -- Moscow production (January 1921). Last ballet of Balashova (1887-1979) in Russia before leaving for America.
1922 Alla Nazimova (actress) Salome (1922 Bryant), feature film Cinema & Dance
1923 Diana Allen (actress) Salome (1923 Strauss), film Cinema
1924 Göta Ljungberg (singer) Salome (1924 Coates, Ljungberg / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera) Music -- First sound recording of the Strauss opera
1924 ??? Salome (1924 / @1905 Strauss), Leningrad production (opera) Russia Music -- Russian premiere of the Strauss opera, 6 June 1924, State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre), Leningrad
1924 ??? Salome's Dance (1924 Goleizovsky / @1905 Strauss), ballet Russia Dance -- Kasyan Goleizovsky, choreography
1925 Gloria Swanson (actress) Stage Struck (1925 Dwan), film - A young waitress dreams of being Salome on stage. Cinema
1926 Stacia Napierkowska (actress) Le berceau de dieu (The Cradle of God / 1926 Granville), feature film Cinema
1928 Olga Spessivtseva (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1928 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet) France Dance -- Paris production
1928 Ninon Vallin (singer) Hérodiade (Herodias / 1928 Cloëz / @1881 Massenet), sound recording (opera) France Music -- Paris production of the Massenet opera.

1930s Salome Work Country Notes
1933 Ruth Sorel (dancer) Salome's Dance (1933 Sorel), ballet Dance -- Ruth Sorel won the top prize in performance at Warsaw, Poland for her expressiveness in Salomé's Dance.
1934 Göta Ljungberg Salome (1934 Bodanzky, Ljungberg / @1905 Strauss), New York production, sound recording (opera) USA Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1934 Joy Montaya (dancer) Salome (1934 Horton, Montaya), ballet USA Dance -- First major version of Horton's ballet
1937 Bella Lewitzky (dancer) Salome (1937 Horton, Lewitzky), ballet USA Dance -- Second major version of Horton's ballet

1940s Salome Film Country Notes
1942 Else Schulz (singer) Salome (1942 Strauss, Schulz / @1905 Strauss), Vienna production, sound recording (opera) Austria Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1944 ??? La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1944 @1907 Schmitt), Paris production (ballet) France Dance -- Paris production of the Schmitt ballet.
1944 Martha Graham (dancer) Hérodiade (Salome / 1944 Hindemith / Graham), ballet USA Dance
1945 Yvonne De Carlo (actress & dancer) Salome, Where She Danced (1945 Lamont), feature film USA Cinema & Dance
1945 Lily Djanel (singer) Salome (1945 Sébastian, Djanel / @1905 Strauss), San Francisco production, sound recording (opera) USA Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1946 Olga Adabache (dancer) Salome (1946 Lifar / @1905 Strauss), ballet Monte Carlo Dance
1947 Maria Cebotari (singer) Salome (1947 Krauss, Cebotari / @1905 Strauss), London production, sound recording (opera) England Music -- Recording of the Strauss opera.
1948 Christel Goltz (singer) Salome (1948 Keilberth, Goltz / @1905 Strauss), sound recording (opera) Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1948 Lilly Djanel (singer) Salome (1948 Perlea, Djanel / @1905 Strauss), Florence production (opera) Italy Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1949 Ljuba Welitsch (singer) Salome (1949 Reiner, Welitsch / @1905 Strauss), New York production, sound recording (opera) USA Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1949 Ljuba Welitsch (singer) Salome, English ed. (1949 Rankl, Welitsch / @1905 Strauss), London production (opera) UK Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
1949 Maria Callas San Giovanni Battista (St. John the Baptist / 1949 Santini / @1675 Stradella), Perugia production (oratorio) Italy Music -- Production of the Stradella oratorio.
1949 Celia Franca (dancer) The Dance of Salome (1949 Franca / Hartley), TV film (ballet) Cinema & Dance Wiki Imdb

1950s Salome Film Country Notes
1950 Gloria Swanson (actress) Sunset Blvd. (1950 Wilder), feature film - A faded silent movie star dreams of making a triumphal return to the screen as Salome USA Cinema
1951 Eugenia Paul The Living Christ Series (1951 Coyle), film series USA Cinema
1953 Carmen de Lavallade (dancer) Salome; or, The Face of Violence (1953 Horton, Lavallade), ballet Dance -- Third major version of Horton's ballet
1953 Rita Hayworth (actress & dancer) Salome (1953 Dieterle), feature film USA Cinema & Dance
1954 Lycette Darsonval (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1954 @1907 Schmitt / Aveline), Paris production (ballet) Frence Dance -- Paris production of the Schmitt ballet.
1955 Lelia Goldoni (dancer) Miss Salome (1955 Truitte / @1953 Horton), ballet Revival of Horton's ballet
1955 Eartha Kitt (actress & dancer) Omnibus: Salome (1955 / @1893 Wilde), TV production (play) Cinema & Theatre -- TV production
1956 Maria Fernanda Salomé, Portuguese ed. (1956 Filho, Gallon / @1893 Wilde), TV production (play) Brazil
1957 Helga Pilarczyk Salome (1957 @1905 Strauss / Goehr), TV production (opera) Wiki Imdb

1960s Salome Film Country Notes
1961 Brigid Bazlen (actress) King of Kings (1961 Ray), feature film - Based on the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew United States Cinema & Dance -- Based on the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew.
1964 Paola Tedesco (child actress) Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew / 1964 Pasolini), feature film - Based on the Gospel of Matthew Italy Cinema -- Based on the Gospel of Matthew.
1969 Ludmilla Tchérina (dancer) Salomé (1969 Koralnik / @1893 Wilde), TV production (play) France Cinema, Theatre & Dance -- Filmization of the 1893 Wilde play. Choreographed by Maurice Béjart. Produced and broadcast in France (9 May 1969).

1970s Salome Film Country Notes
1971 Mascha Rabben (actress) Salome, German ed. (1971 Schroeter / @1893 Wilde), TV production (play) West Germany (11 June 1971) Cinema & Theatre -- Production of the Wilde play.
1972 Donyale Luna (actress) Salomé (1972 Bene), film Italy Cinema -- Freely inspired by the 1893 Wilde play.
1973 Anne Taylor Salome (1973 Barker), short film UK Cinema
1973 Karen Kuertz (dancer) Salome; or, The Face of Violence (1973 Truitte / @1953 Horton), ballet Dance -- The Second revival of Horton's ballet was performed several times between 1972 and 1979. Karen Kuertz, Coleen Giesting and Diane Edwards alternated in the role of Salome.
1973 Carla Fracci (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 1973 @1907 Schmitt / Gai), Florence production (ballet) Italy Dance -- Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. New choreography by Loris Gai. Bruce Marks (Herod Antipas), Sallie Wilson (Herodias), Carla Fracci (Salome), Francois Klaus (John the Baptist). 19, 21, 22, 23 June 1973 (4 performances) Edoardo Muller, conductor
1974 Teresa Stratas (singer) Salome (1974 Böhm, Stratas / Friedrich / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)
1975 Cosetta Pichetti (+) Il Messia (The Messiah / 1975 Rossellini), film Italy
1977 Núria Espert Salomé (1977 @1893 Wilde / Schaaff), TV film (play)
1977 Isabel Mestres (++) Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (1977 Zeffirelli), TV mini-series
1977 Lindsay Kemp (dancer) Salome (1977 Kemp), ballet England Dance -- Lindsay Kemp Company, Roundhouse, London, 21 February 1977 -- All-male performance -- Lindsay Kemp (Salome), Vladek Sheybal (Herod Antipas), The Incredible Orlando (Herodias), David Haughton (John the Baptist)
1978 Isabel Mestres Salomé (Salome / 1978 Almodóvar), short film Spain
1978 Jana Cilliers Salome, English ed. (1978 Faure / @1893 Wilde), TV production (play) South Africa
1978 Vivi Flindt (dancer) Salome (1978 Davies / Flindt), ballet Dance
1979 Montserrat Caballé (singer) Salome (1979 Rudel, Caballé / @1905 Strauss), Madrid production, video recording (opera)

1980s Salome Film Country Notes
1980 Martha Arlette La vida de nuestro señor Jesucristo (The Life of Jesus Christ / 1980 Zacarías), TV film Cinema -- Jesus film.
1983 Patrick Dupont (dancer) Salome (1983 Bejart / Drigo), ballet Dance -- First produced in Geneva by Maurice Bejart (1983), with recorded music by Riccardo Drigo. Salome here a male dancer, Patrick Dupont, who performs a solo in an imposing gown, unequivocally linking the character to transvestitism.
1984 Montserrat Caballé Hérodiade (Herodias / 1984 @1881 Massenet / Delacôte), Barcelona production, video recording (opera) Cinema & Music -- Production of the Massenet opera.
1986 Jo Champa Salome (1986 D'Anna), film Cinema
1986 Holly Irwin (dancer) Salome (1986 Cratty / MacDermot), ballet Dance -- Bill Cratty (chor.) and Galt MacDermot (mus.). Mr. Cratty's bizarre new version of the biblical tale took place in the roaring 20's and, as portrayed by Holly Irwin, Salome was no temptress but an innocent girl who adored her father (Richard Cravens), hated her vain stepmother (Mary Gambardella) and was kind to a beggar (Mr. Cratty).
1987 Rita Capobianco Secondo Ponzio Pilato (According to Pontius Pilate / 1987 Magni), feature film Cinema
1988 Imogen Millais-Scott (+) Salome’s Last Dance (1988 Russell), feature film Cinema

1990s Salome Film Country Notes
1991 Catherine Malfitano (singer & dancer) Salome (1991 Sinopoli, Malfitano / Weigl, Large / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) Cinema, Music & Dance -- Video Recording of the Strauss opera.
1992 Maria Ewing (singer & dancer) Salome (1992 Downes, Ewing / Bailey / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) Cinema, Music & Dance -- Video Recording of the Strauss opera.
1995 Myriam Cyr Salome (1995 Berkoff / @1893 Wilde), video recording (play) Cinema & Theatre -- Video Recording of the Wilde play.
1997 Catherine Malfitano (singer & dancer) Salome (1997 Dohnányi, Malfitano / Bondy, Hulscher / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) Cinema, Music & Dance -- Video Recording of the Strauss opera.
1999 Gabriella Pession Jesus (1999 Young), TV mini-series USA Cinema -- Jesus film

2000s Salome Film Country Notes
2000 Ambra Angiolini Gli amici di Gesù: Maria Maddalena (Close to Jesus: Mary Magdalene / 2000 Mertes), TV film
2001 Alexia Cousin Hérodiade (Herodias / 2001 @1881 Massenet / Fournillier), Saint-Étienne production, video recording (opera)
2001 Dominique Vascquez Salome (2001 Poitevin), short film
2002 Aída Gómez (dancer) Salomé (Salome / 2002 Saura / Baños, Tomatito), film-ballet Spain Cinema & Dance -- Film
2004 Melissa Riker Salome (2004 Bellware), short film
2005 María Adánez (actress & dancer) Salome, Spanish ed. (2005 @1893 Wilde / Narros), Seville production (play) Spain Theatre & Dance -- Production of the Wilde play.
2005 Carolina Felline (actress) Chiamami Salomé (Call Me Salome / 2005 Sestieri), feature film Italy Cinema
2007 Alexia Anastasio (actress) Salome (2007 Anastasio), short film United States Cinema
2007 Nadja Michael (singer) Salome (2007 Harding, Michael / Bondy / @1905 Strauss), Milan production, sound & video recording (opera) Cinema & Music
2008 Nadja Michael (singer) Salome (2008 Jordan, Michael / McVicar / @1905 Strauss), London production, video recording (opera) England Music -- Production of the Strauss opera.
2008 Karita Mattila (singer & dancer) Salome (2008 Summers, Mattila / Sweete / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) Cinema, Music & Dance -- Video recording of the Strauss opera.
2009 Emily Gajek (actress) Salome (2009 Quint), short film United States Cinema

2010s Salome Film Country Notes
2010 Débora Melo Salomé (Salome / 2010 Cabral), short film Brazil
2010 Amy Johnson Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre Presents: Salome (2010 Johnson / @1905 Strauss), TV film (opera) United States
2010 Erika Sunnegårdh Salome (2010 Luisotti, Sunnegårdh / Lavia, Bevilacqua / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera)
2011 Jessica Chastain Wilde Salome (2011 Pacino), documentary
2012 Valentina Cervi True Blood, season 5 (2012 Ball), TV series
2012 Angela Denoke Salome (2012 Soltesz, Denoke / Lehnhoff / @1905 Strauss), video recording (opera) Released as a DVD.
2013 Viktoria Brilyova (dancer) La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome / 2013 @1907 Schmitt / Faski), St. Petersburg production (ballet) Russia Dance -- The Mariinsky Ballet’s production (Emil Faski, chor.) of the Schmitt ballet premiered in Russia on 9 March 2013 at the XIII Ballet Festival MARIINSKY, followed by stagings outside the country, including May 28, 29, 30, 31, June 1, 2013 – Teatro Verdi Orchestra (Trieste); Alexei Repnikov, conductor
2013 Jessica Chastain Salome (2013 Pacino), feature film
2014 Hayat Haigoune The Gospel of John (2014 Batty), feature film
2014 Hayat Haigoune The Gospel of Matthew (2014 Batty), feature film
2015 Hayat Haigoune The Gospel of Mark (2015 Batty), feature film
2015 Stephanie Leonidas Killing Jesus (2015 Menaul), TV mini-series
2016 Victoria Vera (actress & dancer) Salome, Spanish ed. (2016 @1893 Wilde / Chávarri), Madrid production (play) Spain Theatre & Dance -- Production of the Wilde play.

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