In the final video of our season-long A Golden Age of Music series, Carnegie Hall's Director of Artistic Planning Jeremy Geffen introduces Richard Strauss's Salome.
Based on Oscar Wilde's scandalous play of the same name, Strauss composed Salome as "essentially a tone poem with voices. This complex work includes two murders, but rather than taking place graphically on stage, the brutal action is conveyed by the music.
More information about Strauss's Salome is available here.