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Arts and CultureAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
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The subject of Salome has been imbued in scandal since Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play was banned in London and not performed there until 1905. Richard Strauss’s opera was premiered in Dresden in 1905 and received 38 curtain calls, but the German Kaiser Wilhelm II banned it in Berlin. Vienna would not see it on stage until 1918 because of objections by the Church and the Metropolitan Opera cancelled “Salome” after a single performance in 1907, due to the out-cry of J.P. Morgan’s daughter. The Met would not mount a production of it until 1934!!
Jeffrey Engel will detail the background history of Richard Strauss’s third opera and play excerpts from it.
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