IXS Salome
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The problem with reading The Rest Is Noise by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is the constant trips to the piano to try'? out such things as his description of Strauss’s five-note, crazy “Salome chord.” But where else are you going to find such a goldmine of knowledge and lore about 20th-century music? It’s [...]
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
If that opera sent you, I doubt that La Boheme would do much for you. But you might enjoy something like Lulu or Wozzeck. Or Strauss -- Elektra or Salome might tickle your fancy. Certainly not Der Rosenkavalier! The problem with opera for a lot of folks is that most of it is in foreign languages, which they don't have the patience to deal with. But try Peter Grimes (not as violently shocking as...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
Can Salome still shock? As with Wilde's play, Strauss's opera was once an incendiary succès de scandale: banned in respectable houses and dubbed by a New York physician who attended an open rehearsal "one of the most horrible, disgusting, revolting and unmentionable exhibitions of degeneracy I have ever heard, read or imagined". At its performance in the stuffy city of Graz on 16 May 1906, Mahler,...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Royal Opera House, London: David McVicar's new production of Strauss' shocking biblical tale as fleshed out by Oscar Wilde is reset in more recent times. Es Devlin's costumes suggest the thirties, her set some well-used anteroom to the kitchens of a palatial Middle Eastern residence. Read the full review
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 23/02/2008
OC almost flew up to London for David McVicar's Salome, because we're certified McV fangirls, but we eventually decided against it because of the overlapping of the ROH Salome with Milan's fashion week, and priorities are priorities (also, we were...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
Robert Carsen, nowhere to be seen these days around Milan since his problematic Candide last season (the one with George W. Bush, Silvio Berlusconi and other world leaders dancing in their underwares that underwent a bit of a rewrite before...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
Boy, am I glad I’m not married to Michael Stern. His way of celebrating Valentine’s Day weekend was to program works about three of music's biggest female nutcases: Wagner’s suicidal Isolde, Martha Graham's murderous Medea and Strauss’ lascivious Salome.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 13/02/2008
The title role of Richard Strauss' "Salome," which the Florentine Opera will present this weekend, challenges the most seasoned soprano. It requires a big, mature voice, which means that a singer in her later 30s or older must impersonate a spo...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/02/2008
Continuing his fascinating series of operas in concert with the BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, its chief conductor, turned to one of the heftiest and most compelling scores, Strauss's Salome. The 14-strong cast from Turin's Teatro Regio, where Noseda is music director, joined forces with his Manchester orchestra, augmented to 107 players, in a performance that highlighted the orchestra's role...
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
HIGHLIGHT of the weekend is the concert performance of Richard Strauss's opera, Salome, by the 15-strong cast from the Teatro Regio in Turin and the BBC Philharmonic, under Gianandrea Noseda.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Nobody who heard Karita Mattila sing the title role of Strauss's Salome on the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2004 production will ever forget it. That she stripped (briefly) nude at the climax of the Dance of the Seven Veils surely helped fuel the fire, but mainly it was stuff of the performance itself, a heady mixture of fearless vocal fireworks and a daringly sexualized dramatic presence....
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 26/01/2008
Dallas Opera music director Graeme Jenkins explores some of the anecdotal history behind Strauss' Salome , which the company is presenting from February 1 - February 9.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 26/10/2007
“When Richard Strauss conducted his opera Salome on May 16, 1906, in the Austrian city of Graz, several crowned heads of European music gathered to witness the event.”
daily observations (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
I’m just one chapter into Alex Ross‘ magnum opus (so far) The Rest is Noise (Listening to the Twentieth Century). I’m loving it so far, and have learned several things so far that I never knew, but should have at least been aware of, specifically that Strauss’ Salome was not premiered in Vienna, but in [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 31/08/2007
IN A piece of bold programming the SFS plunged straight into the dramatic finale of Strauss' music drama Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's original play.
