Opera history # Trailer: From Mozart to Puccini. Documentary series.

The history of opera from Mozart to Puccini. Experience the history of opera with interesting facts and great music examples.

In this preview, you will get an overview of the documentary series, which will tell the exciting story of this unique art form. Interesting information accompanied by great music examples.

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Salome, Strauss

The online opera guide to SALOME

Richard Strauss first saw the theater play “Salome” in 1902 in a production by Max Reinhard, and three years later created for the first time an expressionist sound world that seemed to break with everything previously known. Despite the now thirteen years that had passed since the play’s first performance, the piece, set to music as an opera, met with open hostility from traditionalists. But the first performance in Dresden became a sensation and “Salome” began its triumphal march around the world.

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