Key facts
- Librettist
- Oscar Wilde ( Hedwig Lachmann 's German translation of the French play Salomé , edited by Richard Strauss)
- Language
- German
- Premiere
- 9 December 1905 ( 1905-12-09 ) , Königliches Opernhaus , Dresden
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- Salome by Richard Strauss playbill of 1905 premiere.jpg
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- Commons category
- Salome (opera)
- date of first performance
- 1905-12-09
- title
- Salomé
- number of parts of this work
- 1
- publication date
- 2000-00-00
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Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer.
The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos.
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