Dance of the Seven Veils

About the Event

Enjoy Strauss's work "Dance of the Seven Veils" performed by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Conductor:
Xincao Li

Richard Strauss was an avant‐gardist at the advent of the 20th Century, but a few years later when everyone else was fighting against tradition, he returned to ear‐pleasing operas with pastoral court settings. Salomé, his first opera, adapted from Oscar Wilde’s biblical play, is notorious for its eroticism, epitomized in the “Dance of the Seven Veils.” Rosenkavalier, however, has a pure and lush Romantic sound.