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Hérodiade
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Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Hérodiade
- Opera.composer
- Jules Massenet
- Opera.image
- Jules Massenet by Eugène Pirou.jpg
- Opera.caption
- The composer, photographed in 1895
- Opera.language
- French
- Opera.premiere_location
- Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Erodiade (soprano), figurino di Alfredo Edel per Erodiade (1882) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON005955.jpg
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- date of first performance
- 1881-12-19
- title
- Hérodiade
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- Commons category
- Hérodiade
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
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12 sectionsContents
- Performance history
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Noted arias
- Ballet suite
- Recordings
- Ballet suite
- References
Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.
The libretto is a retelling of the story of John the Baptist, Salome, Herod Antipas and Herodias, but is strikingly less psychological and bloody than Richard Strauss's Salome, which is based on a text by Oscar Wilde. The opera premiered in Brussels because Auguste Vaucorbeil, Manager of the Paris Opera house refused to stage the work; "I do like your music," he had said to Massenet, "but as for the libretto, you badly need an author who knows how to build the skeleton of a play."