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Salome
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Salome, a play by O.
Wilde, which later formed the basis for the libretto of an opera by Richard Strauss.
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`Salome' without cliche // Bondy, Malfitano breathe new life into opera
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/8/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...conspirators in the production of "Salome" that is now blistering the walls of...Gerard Mortier asked Bondy to tackle "Salome," which is based on Oscar Wilde's...Bondy said between rehearsals before "Salome" opened at Lyric Opera of Chicago last...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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TACKLING `SALOME' A DEFINING MOMENT IN SOPRANO'S CAREER.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...major singers - that Richard Strauss's "Salome" would be big in the career of soprano...said. "It is such a challenge to sing Salome. You never feel you have captured every aspect of the role." Warren began to sing Salome, at 31, in Salt Lake City, a little...
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Wilde's 'Salome.'.(Oscar Wilde's play)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...afterward, Wilde wrote a second play, Salome, and he included in it eight references...author of this new play. But the fan in Salome also serves a functional and symbolic...the one in Lady Windermere's Fan. In Salome the fan is associated with all four main...
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Wilde's "Salome".(19th-century writer Oscar Wilde)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Wilde's Salome has a tripartite structure. The moon-goddess Cybele, Salome, and Herodias, for instance, represent the same...with three colors--white, black, and red; Salome in wooing him approaches him three times. The language...
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"The Call of Salome": American adaptations and re-creations of the female body in the early twentieth century.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Women & Music; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...most efficacious safeguard known against the Salome dance--and hurriedly isolated." The Salome jokes continued. "It is rumored," he reported...that Oscar Hammerstein will introduce the 'Salome' dance into every opera to be given by him...
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NOTHING WILDE ABOUT THIS `SALOME' STORY DOWNFALL OF PLAY IS DULL DIALOGUE.(Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 8/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...up because I just saw a production of ``Salome,'' an 1892 drama by Oscar Wilde. ``Salome'' had the honor (or the ``accolade...majesty's counterpart of Jesse Helms found ``Salome'' to be blasphemous and unwholesome. A...
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'SALOME' STILL RAISES EYEBROWS OPERA'S SIZZLING OPENER.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/20/2000; ; 700+ words
; Richard Strauss' ''Salome'' is definitely not the biblical story...the opera's new production of ''Salome'' Thursday and Saturday at Music Hall...eroticism. Instead of a dutiful daughter, Salome is a horrific predator, whose infatuation...
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Metropolitan Opera: Salome
Magazine article from: Opera News; 3/30/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...translated from Oscar Wilde's French play Salome THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance...Wiekl Cappadocian--bass, LeRoy Lehr Salome--soprano, Catherine Malfitano Slave...gazes rapturously inside at the Princess Salome, who is feasting with her stepfather...
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Salome
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; R. STRAUSS Salome & * Philippe Jordan, cond; Nadja Michael (Salome); Michaela Schuster (Herodias); Thomas Moser...this should be viewed as Director David McVicar's Salome or soprano Nadja Michael's Salome. McVicar is certifiably...
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Singers, orchestra deliver sensational 'Salome'.(ARTS)(OPERA)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/6/2002; 700+ words
; ...Strauss' extravagant one-act opera "Salome" dazzles with its acting and singing...Kennedy Center Opera House, but this "Salome" provides a sensational evening of musical...originally penned in French, Strauss' "Salome" was first performed in 1905. It was...
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Salome
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Salome 1. Possibly the wife of Zebedee and mother...is therefore both uncle and stepfather to Salome. Her dancing pleased Herod, who promised...head of John the Baptist (Mark 6: 24). Salome' name is not mentioned in the NT; she...
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Salome Alexandra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Salome Alexandra see Maccabees , Jewish family.
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Malfitano, Catherine
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...vixenish performance in Richard Strauss's Salome in the 1990s, Malfitano has made a career...memorable debut in a Berlin production of Salome, the Strauss classic. The opening night...stunning interpretations of the devious Salome of all time. Malfitano has said that...
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Hildegard Behrens
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...production of the Richard Strauss opera Salome. On the basis of that future production...scheduled appearance in the title role of Salome with von Karajan conducting and achieved...own concept of the logic of the role of Salome, the conductor had someone else do the...
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Price, Molly 1966–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Chronicles, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 1990–91. Attendant to Salome and understudy for Salome and Herodias, Salome, Circle in the Square Theatre, New York City, 1992. Sybil, The Cover of Life, Hartford Stage...
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