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GREAT PERFORMANCES: SALOME {IN GERMAN WITHOUT SUBTITLES} (TV)
Summary
This program is a film version of Strauss's "Salome," the one-act opera sung in German based on the work of Oscar Wilde. Highlights of this asset include Narraboth's song of his love for Salome (90), Salome's "I Long to Kiss Thy Mouth, Jochanaan," Jochanaan's rejection of Salome, Salome's "Dance of the Seven Veils" and her reward of Jochanaan's severed head, to which she sings before her own execution. This program is not subtitled. (Aired under the umbrella title of "Great Performances.")
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: February 2, 1977 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:45:52
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0463
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Music; Operas; Drama
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV, 1977
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jac Venza … Executive Producer
- Fritz Buttenstedt … Executive Producer
- Horant H. Hohlfeld … Producer
- David Griffiths … Series Producer
- Gotz Friedrich … Director
- Richard Strauss … Composer
- Oscar Wilde … Writer
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
- Karl Bohm … Conductor
- Robert Cohan … Choreographer
- Teresa Stratas … Cast, Salome
- Astrid Varnay … Cast, Herodias
- Hans Beirer … Cast, Herodes
- Bernd Weikl … Cast, Jochanaan
- Weislav Ochman … Cast, Narraboth
- Hanna Schwarz … Cast, Page
- Friedrich Lenz … Cast, First Jew
- Ewald Aichberger … Cast, Second Jew
- Kurt Equiluz … Cast, Third Jew
- Karl Terkal … Cast, Fourth Jew
- Alois Pernerstorfer … Cast, Fifth Jew
- Reinhold Moser … Cast, First Soldier
- Wolfgang Probst … Cast, Second Soldier
- Heinz Klaus Ecker … Cast, First Nazarene
- Norbert Heidgen … Cast, Second Nazarene
- Nikolaus Hillebrand … Cast, Cappadocian