Who wrote the operas Salome and Elektra?
"creating operas that never saw the light again."" She was also known for singing the title roles of ""Salome"" and ""Elektra"" by Richard Strauss, Salome first in Turin, then in many other Italian opera houses and in 1937 in a broadcast of EIAR Rome. She toured in South America, Germany, Switzerland and Norway, performing Fiora in Italo Montemezzi's ""L'amore dei tre re"". She performed the title role in Busoni's ""Turandot"" in the Italian premiere at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino of 1940. After her marriage in 1940 to the architect Giuliano Rossini and the outbreak of World War II, Carbone rarely"
"rather than simultaneously. Elektra (opera) Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ""Elektra"". The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. While based on ancient Greek mythology, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist. Hofmannsthal and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology"
"Elektra (opera) Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama ""Elektra"". The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus on 25 January 1909. It was dedicated to his friends Natalie and Willy Levin. While based on ancient Greek mythology, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist. Hofmannsthal and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology as she meets"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Théodore Salomé Théodore-César Salomé (20 January 1834 – 26 July 1896) was a French organist and composer. Théodore Salomé was born in Paris. He completed all of his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, under the tutelage of François Bazin for harmony and accompaniment, and François Benoist for organ. He won several honorable awards, including: second prize in harmony (1855), second prize in organ and in harmony (1856), second and third prize in harmony and organ (1857), and second prize in harmony (1859). His cantata ""Atala"" was awarded the ""premier Second Grand Prix"" of the Prix de Rome in"
"Salomé (Mariotte) Salomé is an opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the French play ""Salome"" by Oscar Wilde. However, that work was itself inspired by Flaubert's ""Herodias"". Mariotte began to compose his opera before the far more famous treatment of the same source by German composer Richard Strauss (""Salome""), but his premiered after the Strauss work. While in the French navy in the Far East, Mariotte had read the Oscar Wilde play ""Salome"", and decided to set it to music. During his return to Europe by sea, he had access to a piano to"
"popular motifs in operatic works of the early 20th century including Salome and Elektra by Strauss. Dörmann's Libretto tells a Biblical story of King David, the ""aged"" king in the opera, his female servant Abishag (Hagith) and Solomon (the young king), as described in Chapter One of the First Book of Kings. However, in the Bible, the young woman is called ""Avishag"", not Hagith. Haggith is one of the wives of David, the mother of Adonijah. In the libretto, the old and ailing King David is told by the high priest and his doctor, that only the love of a"
"""Salome"" (1905) and ""Elektra"" (1909) quickly established his reputation as Germany's leading opera composer. These two operas stretched the tonal music system to its breaking point. The highly chromatic music featured harsh dissonances and unresolved harmonies. This, paired with the gruesome subject matter, looked forward to expressionism. ""Elektra"" also marked the beginning of Strauss's working relationship with the leading Austrian poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who would provide another five libretti for the composer. With ""Der Rosenkavalier"" of 1911, Strauss changed direction, looking towards Mozart and the world of the Viennese waltz as much as towards Wagner. Modernist critics"
"of the ancient Greek myth. Compared to Sophocles's ""Electra"", the opera presents raw, brutal, violent, and bloodthirsty horror. Ståle Wikshåland has analysed the use of time and temporality in the dramaturgy of ""Elektra"". ""Elektra"" is the second of Strauss's two highly modernist operas (the other being ""Salome""), characterized by cacophonous sections and atonal leitmotifs. These works highly contrasts with his earliest operas and his later period. The reception of ""Elektra"" in German-speaking countries was mostly divided amongst traditionalist and modernist lines. ""Elektra"" is one of the most frequently performed operas based on classical Greek mythology. ""Elektra"" received its UK premiere"
"Ljuba Welitsch Lyuba Welitsch (""Veličkova""; 10 July 1913 – 31 August 1996) was an operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in the late 1930s and early and mid-1940s. In 1946 she became an Austrian citizen Welitsch became best known in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome, in which she was coached by the composer. Her international career was short, its start delayed by the Second World War and its end hastened by vocal problems. It took off in 1947 in London and continued"
"famous of which is Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. Strauss saw Wilde's play in Berlin in November 1902, at Max Reinhardt's 'Little Theatre', with Gertrud Eysoldt in the title role, and began to compose his opera in summer 1903, completing it in 1905 and premiering it later the same year. The Strauss opera moves the centre of interest to Salome, away from Herod Antipas. However, it was not the only operatic treatment. Antoine Mariotte also wrote ""Salomé"" in 1905, and he was involved in a debate with Strauss to prove that his music was written earlier than Strauss's"
"Otello Otello () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play ""Othello"". It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887. With the composer's reluctance to write anything new after the success of ""Aida"" in 1871 and his retreat into retirement, it took his Milan publisher Giulio Ricordi the next ten years, first to persuade him to write anything, then to encourage the revision of Verdi's 1857 ""Simon Boccanegra"" by introducing Boito as librettist, and finally to begin"
"rich in orchestral invention and emotional intensity, Mariotte's ""Salomé"" is in some respects rather more sympathetic to the original Symbolist mood. Wilde wrote the play in French, because he felt its poetic language belonged to ""fin de siècle"" sensibility. Mariotte’s version owes much to the sound world of Debussy and to the disengaged emotional landscape of Maeterlinck, who had highly praised Wilde’s play. Notes Sources Salomé (Mariotte) Salomé is an opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the French play ""Salome"" by Oscar Wilde. However, that work was itself inspired by Flaubert's ""Herodias"". Mariotte began"
"The Nightingale and the Rose (opera) The Nightingale and the Rose (Russian: ""Соловей и роза"" – ""Solovey i roza"") is a chamber opera in one act (five scenes) by Russian composer Elena Firsova (Op. 46, 1990–1991) written to her own English libretto after Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name together with poetry by Christina Rossetti. The opera was written at the request of Paul Esterházy, the director of the Ulm Theatre in Germany. Firsova created the libretto combining the text from Oscar Wilde's fairy-tale, taken from the collection ""The Happy Prince and Other Stories"" (1888), with four poems by"
"Charlotte Salomon (opera) Charlotte Salomon is an opera by Marc-André Dalbavie. The libretto is by Barbara Honigmann (portions translated into French by Johannes Honigmann) who based much of it on Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical and posthumous work ""Leben? Oder Theater?"" The opera was first performed at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, 2014. The nature of ""Leben? Oder Theater?"" is of an artist fashioning her own life into an artistic creation. Dalbavie said that the ""intrinsically musical and even cinematic qualities of 'Leben? Oder Theater?'"" combined with an attraction to real-life drama inspired him to compose an opera based on Charlotte"
"Romolo ed Ersilia (Hasse) Romolo ed Ersilia is an opera in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian-language libretto by Pietro Metastasio. The opera was commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa to celebrate the marriage of her son Leopold to Maria Luisa of Spain. The opera was first performed on 6 August 1765, the day after their wedding, in the court theatre of the Imperial Palace in Innsbruck. The opera received its first performance in modern times in 2011 during the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. The opera is loosely based on The Rape of the Sabine Women,"
"Lovisa Augusti Lovisa Sofia Augusti (born Ester Salomon; 1751 or 1756 – 25 June 1790) was a Swedish opera singer (soprano). She was regarded as one of the most noted opera singers of the Royal Swedish Opera during the Gustavian era. She was appointed ""Hovsångare"" in 1773 and inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1788. Lovisa Augusti was born in Germany under the name ""Ester Salomon"" as the daughter of the travelling Jewish-German musician Israel Salomon. She was trained as a singer, while her brother Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Salomoni was trained as a violinist. In 1766, she"
"""maximum tonal richness."" ""Charlotte Salomon"" is in two acts and an epilogue. It was first performed at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, 2014, where it was directed by Luc Bondy. The production involved twenty projections of Salomon's artwork. Charlotte Salomon (opera) Charlotte Salomon is an opera by Marc-André Dalbavie. The libretto is by Barbara Honigmann (portions translated into French by Johannes Honigmann) who based much of it on Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical and posthumous work ""Leben? Oder Theater?"" The opera was first performed at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, 2014. The nature of ""Leben? Oder Theater?"" is of an"
"Romolo ed Ersilia Romolo ed Ersilia (""Romulus and Ersilia"") is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio first produced in Innsbruck in 1765 with music by Johann Adolf Hasse. The drama was one of Metastasio's last, shortest, and least popular. Mysliveček's setting of 1773 was the only other one known to have been produced during the remainder of the eighteenth cebtury. It includes significant alterations, in particular the introduction of new arias that augment the importance of certain characters and the re-ordering of existing arias."
"Salome (play) Salome (French: Salomé, ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began"
"Tolomeo Tolomeo, re d'Egitto (""Ptolemy, King of Egypt"", HWV 25) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's ""Tolomeo et Alessandro"". It was Handel's 13th (or 14th if the one act Handel contributed to the collaborative opera ""Muzio Scevola"" is counted) and last opera for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) and was also the last of the operas he composed for the triumvirate of internationally renowned singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The story of the opera"
"who has written music and libretto for several lyrical works: two dramatic contemporary operas, ""Araminta"" and ""Afrodita""; one experimental short opera, ""Aurora""; and three children operas, ""Lincoln"", ""Ponce de Leon"", and ""The First ThanksGiving"". Some scenes from ""Araminta"" were premiered in concert in England 2017. ""Afrodita"" was premiered in concert in England 2015 and in Miami, USA, also in 2015. ""Aurora"", the experimental short opera, was premiered in England in 2011. The three children operas: ""Lincoln"", ""Ponce de Leon"", and ""The First ThanksGiving"", were all premiered in Florida, USA, in 2001, 2002, and 2003. For these three children operas Constantinidis"
"Joseph Gregor. Strauss's final opera, ""Capriccio"" (1942), had a libretto by Clemens Krauss, although the genesis for it came from Stefan Zweig and Joseph Gregor. According to statistics compiled by Operabase, in number of operas performed worldwide over the five seasons from 2008/09 to 2012/13, Strauss was the second-most performed 20th-century opera composer, ahead of Benjamin Britten and behind only Giacomo Puccini. Strauss tied with Handel as the eighth most-performed opera composer from any century over those five seasons. Over the five seasons from 2008/09 to 2012/13, Strauss's top five most-performed operas were ""Salome"", ""Ariadne auf Naxos"", ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"","
"III, scene 9 - Chorus, ""Viva lieta, e sia regina"" Semiramide (Mysliveček) Semiramide is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. It was composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first set to music in 1729. For a performance in the 1760s, it would only be expected that a libretto by Metastasio would be abbreviated and altered to suit contemporary operatic taste. The cuts and changes in the text made for the 1766 performance of Mysliveček's opera are not attributable. The opera was the first one ever composed by Mysliveček,"
"Cesare e Cleopatra Cesare e Cleopatra is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Carl Heinrich Graun. The opera uses an Italian-language libretto by Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli. It was commissioned by Frederick II of Prussia for the opening of the newly built ""Königliches Opernhaus"" (Royal Opera House) in Berlin, and was notably the inaugural performance of the newly formed Berlin State Opera. Although construction of the opera house was not entirely complete, the opera premiered in the new theatre using a German language translation on 7 December 1742 under the baton of the composer. The production starred soprano"
"Sutermeister; their grandfather was the folklorist Otto Sutermeister. Heinrich Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister (12 August 1910, Feuerthalen – 16 March 1995, Vaux-sur-Morges) was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera ""Romeo und Julia"". During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich where Carl Orff was his teacher and Orff remained a powerful influence on his music. Returning to Switzerland in the mid-1930s, he devoted his life to composition. He wrote some works for the radio, starting with ""Die schwarze Spinne"" in 1936, before turning later to television opera. His most successful stage work"
"Mozart and Salieri (opera) Mozart and Salieri (, ""Motsart i Salyeri"") is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name. The story follows the apocryphal legend that Antonio Salieri poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of jealousy over the latter's music. Rimsky-Korsakov incorporated quotations from Mozart's ""Requiem"" and ""Don Giovanni"" into the score. Richard Taruskin has placed this opera in the historical context of the development of the realistic tradition in Russian opera. The first performance took place at the"
"Zarya (opera) Zarya svobody (Russian Заря свободы, German Morgenröte der Freiheit, English The Dawn of Freedom), is an opera in four acts composed between 1873 and 1877 by Ella Adayevskaya (the pseudonym adopted by the composer Elizaveta von Schultz). The opera, which was listed by Adayevskaya as her Op. 8, has a libretto by Richard Genée, translated into Russian by Adayevskaya herself. A manuscript piano score bears the title, in German, ""Die Morgenröte der Freiheit"". The opera bears a dedication to Tsar Alexander II. The opera takes place in Little Russia (present-day Ukraine) in 1762. Olga and Pierre have loved"
"Alfred Cellier Alfred Cellier (1 December 184428 December 1891) was an English composer, orchestrator and conductor. In addition to conducting and music directing the original productions of several of the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan works and writing the overtures to some of them, Cellier conducted at many theatres in London, New York and on tour in Britain, America and Australia. He composed over a dozen operas and other works for the theatre, as well as for orchestra, but his 1886 comic opera, ""Dorothy"", was by far his most successful work. It became the longest-running piece of musical theatre in"
"It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound."" In the early years of the century, Wagnerian chromatic harmony was extended by opera composers such as Richard Strauss (""Salome"", 1905; ""Elektra"", 1906–1908; ""Der Rosenkavalier"", 1910; ""Ariadne auf Naxos"", 1912; ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"", 1917), Claude Debussy (""Pelléas et Mélisande"", 1902), Giacomo Puccini (""Madama Butterfly"", 1904; ""La fanciulla del West"", 1910; ""Il trittico"", 1918), Ferruccio Busoni (""Doktor Faust"", 1916, posthumously completed by his student Philipp Jarnach), Béla Bartók (""Bluebeard's Castle"", 1911–17), Leos Janáček (""Jenůfa"", 1904; ""Osud"", 1907; ""Kát´a Kabanová"", 1919-1921) and Hans Pfitzner"
"Hugo Reichenberger Hugo Reichenberger (28 July 187311 October 1938) was a German conductor and composer. After stations in Bremen, Aachen, Stuttgart and Munich (National Theatre) Hugo Reichenberger became 1st ""Kapellmeister"" at the Stadttheater Frankfurt/Main in 1905 where he premiered Richard Strauss' ""Salome"" in 1907. From 1908 to 1935 he was a permanent conductor at the Vienna Court Opera and State Opera. He was one of the most frequent conductors of the Vienna State Opera, giving more than 2000 performances, among which emerge the premieres of Richard Strauss' ""Elektra"" in 1909 and Leos Janáceks ""Jenufa"" in 1918. As a guest conductor"
"There were further productions at the Spoleto Festival USA and Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in 1983, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1991 . Two complete commercial recordings of the opera exist (one of the premiere of the original version, the other of the revision), as well as two scenes sung by Leontyne Price. Antony and Cleopatra (opera) Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli. It was based on the play ""Antony and Cleopatra"" by William Shakespeare and made use"