![]() ![]() Strauss composed the opera to a German libretto, and that is the version that has become widely known. Strauss pared down Lachmann's German text to what he saw as its essentials, and in the process reduced it by nearly half, which included removing some of Wilde's recurring motifs. Wilde himself described Salomé as containing "refrains whose recurring motifs make it so like a piece of music and bind it together as a ballad". The play's formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation. Strauss saw the Lachmann version of the play in Max Reinhardt's production at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on 15 November 1902, and immediately set to work on an opera. Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French. The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its " Dance of the Seven Veils". Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. ![]() The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. ![]()
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