En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Salome, Op.54: Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen

Cantatrice en pleine ascension, Elsa Dreisig se produisait au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées pour son premier grand récital parisien. Une interprétation splendide dans un programme qui mettait en miroirs quelques scènes d’opéra.

Gergiev and the Mariinsky excel in Act III of Tristan und Isolde with the help of star singing from Vekua, Westbroek and Nikitin; George Li shows promise in Liszt.

A pub quiz question for you, dear reader: with which work did 20th century music begin? The rest is noise, Alex Ross's history of 20th century music, opens with Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salome, focusing particularly on its final bars. As Princess Salome is crushed under the shields of King Herod's guard, the music turns to what Ross describes as "...a tumult... a howl... a shriek...