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	Salome - Opera of Richard Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Salome - Milda Brehmane-Stengele, Jokanaan - Adolfs Kaktins, Herod - Rudolfs Berzins, Herodias - Elza Zubite.
		Salome - Zermena Heine-Vagnere and Arija Simsone, Jokanaan - Maigurs Andermanis and Herberts Ozolitis, Herod - Arturs Frinbergs and Arnolds Jekabsons, Herodias - Anna Ludina and Elvira Volsteine.
		Salome - Solveiga Raja, Rita Zelmane, Freda Kaleja and Dagmara Rijkure, Jokanaan - Vladimirs Okuns and Aleksandrs Polakovs, Herod - Karlis Zarins and Juris Rijkuris, Herodias - Ludmila Bora and Anna Snukute.
	www.opera.lv /Salome/default_E.htm (3283 words)

	Salome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salome or Salomé, like Dismas, or the various names of the Three Magi, is a name given to a character in the Bible whose name is not given in the Bible itself.
		Salome was the step-daughter of Herod Antipas, and danced before Herod and her mother Herodias at the occasion of Herod's birthday, and by doing so caused the death of John the Baptist.
		The opera Salome, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, is famous for the Dance of the seven veils.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salom%c3%a9 (869 words)

	AZOpera Salome Synopsis
		The legend of "Salome" derives from a sparse Biblical account of the decadent stepdaughter of Herod, Tetrach of Judea, and her shocking insistence upon the beheading of St. John the Baptist.
		In the original Gospel story, Salome was depicted very briefly as an amoral adolescent who demands the Prophet's head on a charger, essentially to fulfill a request of her affronted and vengeful mother.
		Salome provides the sensuous, decadent performance Herod has requested, then throws herself at his feet, sweetly and solemnly demanding her payment: the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.
	www.evermore.com /azo/95season/s_syn.php3 (700 words)

	Opera - Strauss' "Salome": Its Arts And Its Morals
		One quarrels with the music of the final scene of Salome " on the broad ground of its inappropriateness: because the emotional note which it strikes and sustains is one of nobility, whereas the plain requirement of the scene, of the psychological moment, demands music that should be anything but noble.
		For the only ground upon which it might be remotely possible to ac-count for Salome's remarkable behaviour, except by regarding her as a necrophilistic maniac, is that sup-plied by the conditions and the environment of a lustful, decadent, and bloodshot age.
		The music of Salome," then, judging it in its entirety, is deficient as an exposition, as a translation into tone, of the drama upon which it is based; for it is inadequate in its expression of the play's central and informing emotion.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles06/opera-48.shtml (2329 words)

	Salome - Richard Strauss
		But Salome is weary and indifferent; Herodias full of bitter scorn for him and for her daughter.
		Salome demurs, until he swears that he will grant any request she may make of him.
		At the Metropolitan Opera House, then under the direction of Heinrich Conried, it was heard at a full-dress rehearsal, which I attended, and at one performance.
	www.music-with-ease.com /strauss-salome.html (1000 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Salome
		These operas may have aroused indignation and repulsion in some of their audiences, but many opera-goers were fascinated with the realism and eroticism on the stage.
		Salome and Elektra were treated with great respect by many listeners, and Debussy's opera of Maeterlinck's symbolist drama generated much serious, albeit bewildered, discussion.
		Opera still has the potential to shock contemporary audiences with its subject matter and modern harmonic language, and it will probably always draw sold-out audiences for these "scandalous" works—audiences looking for the entertainment and catharsis that these operas can provide.
	www.operaworld.com /special/salomechurch.shtml (780 words)

	SALOME
		The opera is scored for a very large orchestra including six horns, four trumpets, four trombones, bass tuba, five tympani, an Eb clarinet, a bass clarinet, a celeste, an organ, a harmonium and a vast array of percussion instruments.
		Cappadocia (one of the characters in the opera is a Cappadocian) was a kingdom somewhere in the middle of present-day Turkey.
		Salome did not appear in Vienna until 1918--a certain Archbishop Piffl objected to its immorality when it was proposed in 1906 (infuriating Gustav Mahler, at that time the director of the Vienna Court Opera).
	www.pzweifel.com /music/salome.htm (3911 words)

	Opera - Salome
		Salome, a grand opera in one act, its text by Oscar Wilde, its music by Richard Strauss, received its premier production at the Royal Opera, Dresden, Dec. 9, 1905.
		Just then Salome herself comes in from the feast, rejoicing to be free from the caresses of her licentious stepfather, Herod.
		The whole work is dramatic to a degree and it would be difficult to find another moment in opera of tenser suspense than that in which Salome waits at the cistern for the head of John.
	www.oldandsold.com /opera/opera-101.shtml (913 words)

	SALOME RECORDINGS Photo by Philippe Halsman
		Marie Wittich was sang the premiere of Salome in Dresden Dec. 9, 1905.
		She found the opera "distasteful and obscene...I won't do it, I'm a decent woman." Wittich allowed a ballerina to perform the infamous "Dance of the Seven Veils" at the premiere but later insisted on doing it herself - much to the embarrassment of Strauss, as Wittich was a large rather ungainly woman.
		Salome was one of Caballe's favorite roles, an unlikely choice considering her physical attributes but she surely has the required vocal quality for the role.
	classicalcdreview.com /salomerev.htm (5956 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Salome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The girl was completely naked beneath the veils...With a single movement of her body, she cast aside the last vestige of covering." The Salome of history had been forgotten, and in the minds of most people had become the Salome of legend.
		In Berlin it was only allowed as long as Salome prayed for redemption during her final soliloquy, and the Star of Bethlehem, rather than the moon, shone at the end.
		The American premiere, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, was considered so scandalous that, after one performance, and at the insistence of the financier J.P. Morgan, it was dropped and not seen again at that house until 1933.
	www.operaworld.com /special/salome.shtml (1112 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - Sex, violence and Strauss: Arizona Opera's "Salome" is Rated R - Thursday January 16, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But "Salome," a passionate opera by Richard Strauss based on the play by Oscar Wilde, broke all taboos when it was first performed.
		Salome performs the dance, and receives the head of John the Baptist, which she kisses lustily.
		Salome is also a teenage girl in the play, so the role demands someone who can pull off the youthful role.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/96/76/04_2.html (943 words)

	Calder Publications - ENO Opera Guide 37 - Salome/Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Richard Strauss, already known for his wonderful orchestral tone-poems, projected his genius at the turn of the twentieth century to opera, and this Guide contains the texts and introductions to his first two masterpieces in what was, for him, a new genre.
		Despite obvious similarities - both operas consist of one Act, centred upon one female title role - the articles included here reveal that the operas are really quite different in subject and treatment.
		'Salome', based on Oscar Wilde’s notorious play, has a kaleidoscopic range of orchestral colour and a lurid climax in ‘The Dance of the Seven Veils’ - an episode which has challenged generations of sopranos to dance as well as sing.
	www.calderpublications.com /books/0714541311.html (317 words)

	San Diego Opera Stages Salome
		"Salome" is famously a "conductor's opera," and it doesn't hurt to have a thoroughly polished orchestra either.
		Not one of these operas is anything less than a masterpiece, but to experience all five with completely un-jaded sensibilities, it helps to stay at home and rarely go anywhere else.
		American mezzo-soprano Kristine Ciesinski, star of this month's SDO Salome, let out a brief, discreet gasp when I told her (via telephone to Berlin) that famed soprano Hildegard Behrens would be stealing her thunder in the LA Opera's Salome, four weeks before Ciesinski's West Coast debut in the part.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/kristine.stm (2198 words)

	Salome - that shocking opera by Len Mullenger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lord Chamberlain's Office finally agreed that Salome could be presented with a salver provided that it was completely covered with a cloth with not the merest hint of an object underneath it.
		It did not stay empty for long and in subsequent performances things were obviously present under the towel or the salver was replaced by a silver dish of blood or, in one report, a mound of pink blancmange.
		Oscar Hammerstein then took the opera to Philadelphia where over a thousand people had to be turned away and the curtain rose twenty minutes late because of the crush.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /salome.htm (1201 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In January, 1909, Strauss’s opera reappeared in triumph at Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House, with the bewitching Mary Garden in the title role.
		Salome, the Bible tells us, danced for her stepfather, Herod, and demanded the head of John the Baptist as a reward.
		Ordinarily, the Dance of the Seven Veils is a would-be titillating moment that makes everyone uncomfortable: opera singers are not, by nature, physical performers, and even the fittest Salomes seem out of their element as they muddle through whatever choreography has been set up for them.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music?040405crmu_music (1599 words)

	UEA, EAS, Undergraduate Unit, Representations of Women in Opera and Drama
		Garelik, Rhonda, ‘Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the Exposition Universelle in 1900’.
		With reference to at least TWO plays by different dramatists, consider how in practice the theatre might be seen to construct an image of the actress in roles designed specifically for the gaze of a male spectator.
		Comparing play or story with opera, or play or opera with film, etc., consider how any one of the works studied on this course has been transposed into another artistic medium.
	www.uea.ac.uk /menu/acad_depts/eas/people/robinson/womenopera03.shtml (3958 words)

	Richard Strauss and Salome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is fitting that Strauss was the man who transformed Wilde's Salome -- the text of which features the attempted seduction of John the Baptist (Iokanaan) followed by Salome's unprecedented passionate post-mortem kiss for the prophet -- into opera; both Wilde and Strauss were criticized widely for unconventionality in their works.
		Strauss's opera was broadly rejected at first because of the "immorality" of its content--a sequence of events which raises uncomfortable questions about the deep sensuality of the Christian tradition--and for the heroine's disregard for the Christian morality.
		Pater's Appreciations (1889), in which he read that a play "attains artistic perfection just in proportion as it approaches that unity of lyrical effect, as if a song or a ballad were still lying as the root of it." [Pater asserts] the primacy of the lyric over dramatic writing.
	www.victorianweb.org /mt/strauss.html (342 words)

	Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY -- Education -- Salome - R. Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When her erotic advances are brutally rejected by Jokanaan (John the Baptist), Salome extracts from her besotted stepfather, Herod, a shocking revenge.
		Salome is surely its principal ornament; manifest high inspiration works with supreme technical accomplishment, in a spiritual void, to raise kitsch to Kunst by sheer genius.
		She was no longer the simple dancing-girl who with a shameless twist of her loins wrests from an old man a cry of heated desire; who, breasts quivering, belly heaving, thighs trembling, saps a king's energy and melts his will.
	www.cooperstown.net /glimmerglass/education/salomep1.html (2333 words)

	SALOME RECORDINGS Photo by Philippe Halsman
		Strauss's Salome may seem quite tame by today's standards, but it stunned the musical world at its princess's lust for John the Baptist, combined with Strauss's sensuous music, the spectacle of Salome performing her infamous "Dance of the Seven Veils," then demanding the head of the Baptist as reward, was a new moral debasement.
		If you have but one complete Welitsch Salome surely it should be the 1949—it is strange that considering the hundreds of performances she gave of the opera during her all-too-brief career more haven't shown up.
		Cebotari's Salome finale can also be heard in a 1943 recording on a Preiser CD (with an odd—but effective—quiet ending presumably the work of conductor Artur Rother), along with excerpts from Feuersnot, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne as well as the seldom-heard Taillefer (90222).
	classicalcdreview.com /Salome.html (5927 words)

	ipedia.com: Salome Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Salomé, the daughter of Herodias who demanded John the Baptist 's head, unnamed in the New Testament but named "Salomé" or "Salome" according to Christian mythology.
		Salomé, the daughter of Herodias who demanded John the Baptist's head, unnamed in the New Testament but named "Salomé" or "Salome" according to Christian mythology.
		Salome, opera by Richard Strauss, first performed in 1905
	www.ipedia.com /salome_1.html (149 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Salome Revealed
		From Salome, the phrase slipped into common parlance as if it had always been there--partly because it symbolized the fashionable obsession with the femme fatale, but also because Wilde was a poet, and the event, and the actors, and the props, did boast mythic roots.
		It has a different meaning for the principals--where Herod is aroused, Salome is using her newfound sensuality to avenge the loss of her innocence and the frustration of her first passion.
		The Seven Veils of Wilde's Salome have become fixed in her legend as if they had always been there, because Wilde's hints about the sinister power of sex beneath the veils of innocence and civilization were the truths his society was ready to believe.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/51.html (2067 words)

	Salome, Opera Australia - smh.com.au
		Gasteen, as Salome, is vocally superb, true, and growing in stature throughout the evening to a close of thrilling power.
		Her voice seems at its peak for this repertoire and is the main reason for hearing the piece.
		Dramatically, however, it diminished Salome's potency that he was such a slavering pushover - it seemed he didn't need a Salome to get his rocks off.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/22/1058853067621.html (553 words)

	The Opera Critic - The World of Opera including Reviews, News and Articles
		Disappointment has been aired that an opera involving Russian students being staged in Scotland is not going to St Petersburg as originally proposed.
		Opera Colorado will present Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, and Verdi's Un ballo in maschera during its 2006-07 season.
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	theoperacritic.com (293 words)

	Reviews Fanatique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Salome is a role almost guaranteed to be sin-sational.
		Puccini's 1917 opera la Rondine is one-stop schmaltz: Puccini mixes tunes from his previous operas (and somehow manages to foreshadow Turandot as well)) with a waltz beat in his attempt to create a Viennese operetta with a south-of-the-Dolomites swing.
		Her "ah ciel" as the curtain came down at the end of the opera was stupendous...
	nycofreviews.blogspot.com (7298 words)

	Amazon.com: Strauss: Salome: Music: Richard Strauss,Fritz Reiner,Herman Weigert,Kurt Schroder,Zdenek Kosler,Wiener ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This recording of Salome long was thought lost but finally finds here a good remastering thanks to MYTO (personally I still hope they will find the Della Casa's at Munich!).
		Varnay gives her outstanding and last interpretation from Salome in a better sound than the integral reissued by Orfeo.
		The Salome of the century here had already lost her internal fire intensity although the voice still was in good condition (go back to EMI's studio with Karajan in 1947 or live again with Reiner at the Met in 1949, both a legend!
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R7ME?v=glance (617 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2005-06 Broadcasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Salome (soprano)—The Princess of Judea and Herodias’ daughter.
		He lusts after his stepdaughter Salome, and is afraid of Jochanaan’s prophetic power.
		He has fallen in love with Salome from afar.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaMain.cgi?id=92&language=1 (91 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Salome: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Riegel excels in the role of Herod, almost matching Salome in his paranoia and obsessiveness - and wonderfully partnered by Anya Silja's majestic, alcoholic Herodias - gradually sobering as the realization of her daughters actions sinks in.
		This performance of Strauss' opera Salome, recorded in London, but based on an earlier performance at the Salzburg Festival, could be the perfect Salome on DVD for several years to come.
		Malfitano and Terfel as Salome and Jokanaan are not to be surpassed in the next years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068UXG (695 words)

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