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Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.
The opera is famous (at the time of its release, infamous) for its Dance of the Seven Veils. It is now better known for the more shocking final scene (often a concert-piece for dramatic soprano), where Salome makes necrophilic love to the severed head of John the Baptist.
It was first performed at the Hofoper in...
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