Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Alno Ad Els hich ge 201 Above Aino Ackté as Salome . The beautiful Finnish soprano sang the title role in Strauss ' opera in the London première of 1910 . Right Léon Bakst , Costume for Ida Rubinstein as Salome . This costume was not for Strauss ' opera but for Florent Schmidt's ballet , The Tragedy of Salome . Bakst fleshed out the androgynous Mme Rubinstein with feminine curves she did not possess in contemporary photographs or in the paintings of her lover , Romaine Brooks . The three most successful operatic composers at the turn of the century , Massenet , Puccini and Strauss , all wrote operas in which fatal women are central characters . Massenet far outstripped his rivals in the sheer number of seductive and destructive women he managed to celebrate in his music . The most popular has been Manon , a young femme fatale of singular charm . The familiar equation of love and death runs through nearly all of Puccini's operas . Puccini was temperamentally attracted to women victims rather than women predators . The mental and physical sufferings of his heroines inspired his loveliest and most deeply felt music . But Tosca , with her jealous rages and her cry - ' This is the kiss of Tosca ' - as she plunges the knife into her tormenter's chest , has unmistakably fatale characteristics . Puccini's most impressive femme fatale is the icy Princess Turandot , the protagonist of his final opera , which was left unfinished when he died in 1924. Like the sphinx , Turandot poses riddles to her suitors and has them beheaded when they cannot answer . Puccini's score 38