Salome (opera)

Salome
Opera by Richard Strauss
1910 poster by Ludwig Hohlwein
Librettist	Oscar Wilde (Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé, edited by Richard Strauss)
Language	German
Premiere	9 December 1905 (1905-12-09) Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer.^[1]

The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos.