Salome (play)
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Salome is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted se
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for the first English edition of the play (1894)
Illustration for Salome, by Manuel Orazi
Lina Munte as Salome in the first production (1896)
Ida Rubinstein as Salome
Salome (opera)
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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
Salome (play)
…publicly there until 1931. The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his 1905 opera Salome, the international success of which has overshadowed the play itself. Film and other adaptations have also been made of the play. When Wilde began…
1910 poster by Ludwig Hohlwein
1905 Dresden premier poster
Olive Fremstad holding the head of John the Baptist in the Metropolitan Opera's 1907 production of Salome by Richard Strauss
Karl Perron as Jochanaan in the Dresden performances, 1907