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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Richard Strauss's “ Salome . ** Salorde of Richard Strauss is the Salome of Oscar Wilde , intensi . tied by all the resources that musical art can add to scenie and literary art . I text is as has already been re marked here , a literal translation of wilde's plax , pith many omissions made for the purpose of condensation , but working no change in its character or significance whatever . It is a picture set in the time of the Jewish decadence and the Roman domination , a picture of elemental passions of decadent ini . morality grisly cruelty . weak super etition , erotic sensuality . It 19 like a stranke and oppressive nightmare , a rema of " old , unhappy , far - off thing , which a strange feeling of ter ror and intangible horror pervades . Its uterary style is a mixture of Maeter linck and * The Song of Solornon . " For Wilde the Biblical story was too colorless , too dry ; it had no sumptu mueness , no hackground , no viciousness . The Salume who was but an obedient Renant of her mother in causing the beheading of the prophet bad ne allude ment for him . HIS Salome is not structed of her mother in demanding the head of John the Baptist on charger Her own thwart pussions , her perverted desires for the prophetis love , and her longing toss in mouth are the motive that imbe Her She is * athirst for his beauty , hungry for his body and neither wine or fruits Long outline by Rechaud Alduch Sunday Maga Jan 17 ( ? ) Scheduled Salome presentations 2 matinees rool one evens performance ! 3 .