Strauss: Salome (2-CD) – Malin Byström, Gerhard Siegel
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Strauss: Salome (2-CD) – Malin Byström, Gerhard Siegel
Composer: Richard Strauss
Artists: Malin Byström, Katarina Dalayman, Gerhard Siegel, Johan Reuter, Bror Magnus Tødenes, Hanna Hipp, Michael Müller-Kasztelan, Petter Moen, John Michael Wrensted Olsen, James Kryshak, Callum Thorpe, Clive Bayley, James Stephen Ley, Igor Bakan, James Platt, James Berry, Rita Therese Ziem, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Number of Discs: 2
Label: February 27, 2025
Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé was conceived for the actress Sarah Bernhardt and was originally planned for performance in London in 1892. The play was blocked by the censor (it was forbidden at the time to depict biblical characters on stage) and so was first given in Paris instead, in 1896. Subsequently, the play gained popularity in Germany, and having attended a performance in Berlin in 1902, Strauss determined that this would be the subject for his third opera.
First performed in 1905, Strauss’s Salome has gone on to become much better-known than Wilde’s play and is regularly performed at opera houses around the world. This live recording was made at a performance at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2022. Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by an outstanding cast of soloists, led by Malin Byström in the title role, Gerhard Siegel as Herod, Katarina Dalayman as Herodias, and Johan Reuter as John the Baptist.
History
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome
Premiere: Dresden Court Opera, 1905. The story of this incendiary and powerful opera is derived from a brief biblical account: A young princess of Judea dances for her stepfather Herod and chooses as her reward the head of the prophet John the Baptist. This subject captured the imaginations of generations of visual artists, but its full possibilities were perhaps best realized in Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy (which was banned from performance in several countries). Strauss’s score combines the grandeur of Wagner’s epics with the focus and emotional punch of the short Italian verismo operas.
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