Salome

Sobre o Evento

It has been over 100 years since the first Viennese production of Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" at the Volksoper Vienna. This one‐act opera about the princess of Judaea granted Richard Strauss worldwide recognition as an opera composer.

The theatre censor forbade Gustav Mahler from including "Salome" in the Hofoper programme. The opera premiered in 1905 in Dresden. Two years later it was performed at the "Breslauer Gastspiel" and it was the Volksoper that presented the first Viennese production of "Salome" in 1910. At that time this opera, which was based on Oscar Wilde's play, offended ideas of "morality". Strauss himself called his ground‐breaking work, "a scherzo with a deadly end".

Today, the third opera by the Bavarian master composer is regarded as an epochal masterpiece of music theatre.