While in the French navy in the Far East, Mariotte had read the Oscar Wilde play Salome, and decided to set it to music. During his return to Europe by sea, he had access to a piano to continue his work, and while on leave, he took a course at the Conservatoire by Charles-Marie Widor, then resigned from the navy in 1897, and entered the Schola Cantorum where he was taught by Vincent d'Indy. After being appointed professor of piano at the Conservatoire in Lyon, he completed the score of his Salomé, believing himself to have permission from Wilde's estate and the publisher Methuen.
In fact, having obtained the agreement to use the play, Richard Strauss had in turn asked his publisher Fürstner to acquire the rights. Wilde's particularly complicated estate led to a court case that favoured the rights of Fürstner. Mariotte learnt that Fürstner would oppose the production of a "Salomé française" and after going to Berlin, he obtained permission to have his piece staged, on condition that 40% royalties went to Richard Strauss and 10% to Fürstner, with all scores to be sent after the run to Fürstner to be destroyed. Romain Rolland, having read an article by Mariotte in the Revue internationale de musique, helped him to obtain a more generous settlement from Strauss.
Performance historyedit
On 30 October 1908, Mariotte's opera was produced at the Grand-Théâtre de Lyon (three years after Strauss's in Dresden) with success and with De Wailly singing the title role. On the initiative of the Isola brothers the Paris premiere took place on 22 April 1910 (for twelve performances) at the Gaîté-Lyrique with Lucienne Bréval as Salomé and Mathilde Comès as Hérodias, Jean Périer as Hérode, Georges Petit as Iokanaan and André Gilly as the captain of guards, conducted by Auguste Amalou.[2] Strauss's Salomé was presented that season at the Opéra with Mary Garden in the title role. After having been performed at Nancy, Le Havre, Marseille, Geneva, and Prague, Mariotte's Salomé was seen at the Paris Opéra on 1 July 1919 again with Bréval in the title role.
After many years of neglect, the Opéra National de Montpellier presented both the Strauss and Mariotte versions of the opera in November 2005.[3]
The opera was staged in October 2014 as part of the 2014 Wexford Festival Opera in Wexford, Ireland, conducted by David Angus.[6]
Musical styleedit
Mariotte's selection from the Wilde text was different from that of Strauss, as was the musical style of the opera. In comparison with the more famous Salome opera, Mariotte's rich orchestral colours are sombre, and the drama unfolds in a sequence of tableaux. The characters are less extravagant and certainly less sexually charged; the dense, often contrapuntal sound-world has its roots in 19th century academicism. Mariotte uses an off-stage orchestra for the banquet in the opening scene while the final scene uses a wordless chorus to add an enigmatic glow to Salomé's ode to Iokanaan's head.[7]
A work rich in orchestral invention and emotional intensity, Mariotte's Salomé is in some respects rather more sympathetic to the original Symbolist mood. Wilde wrote the play in French, because he felt its poetic language belonged to fin de siècle sensibility. Mariotte's version owes much to the sound world of Debussy and to the disengaged emotional landscape of Maeterlinck,[3] who had highly praised Wilde's play.[8]
Rowden, Clair, "The Other Salome", Opera (London), October 2014, Volume 65, No 10.
External linksedit
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Salome is a 1908 opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the 1891 French play Salome by Oscar Wilde However that work was itself inspired by Flaubert s Herodias Mariotte began to compose his opera before the far more famous treatment of the same source by German composer Richard Strauss Salome but his premiered after the Strauss work 1 The Dancer s Reward illustration to Wilde s play by Aubrey Beardsley Contents 1 Composition history 2 Performance history 3 Musical style 4 Roles 5 Recording 6 References 7 External linksComposition history editWhile in the French navy in the Far East Mariotte had read the Oscar Wilde play Salome and decided to set it to music During his return to Europe by sea he had access to a piano to continue his work and while on leave he took a course at the Conservatoire by Charles Marie Widor then resigned from the navy in 1897 and entered the Schola Cantorum where he was taught by Vincent d Indy After being appointed professor of piano at the Conservatoire in Lyon he completed the score of his Salome believing himself to have permission from Wilde s estate and the publisher Methuen In fact having obtained the agreement to use the play Richard Strauss had in turn asked his publisher Furstner to acquire the rights Wilde s particularly complicated estate led to a court case that favoured the rights of Furstner Mariotte learnt that Furstner would oppose the production of a Salome francaise and after going to Berlin he obtained permission to have his piece staged on condition that 40 royalties went to Richard Strauss and 10 to Furstner with all scores to be sent after the run to Furstner to be destroyed Romain Rolland having read an article by Mariotte in the Revue internationale de musique helped him to obtain a more generous settlement from Strauss Performance history editOn 30 October 1908 Mariotte s opera was produced at the Grand Theatre de Lyon three years after Strauss s in Dresden with success and with De Wailly singing the title role On the initiative of the Isola brothers the Paris premiere took place on 22 April 1910 for twelve performances at the Gaite Lyrique with Lucienne Breval as Salome and Mathilde Comes as Herodias Jean Perier as Herode Georges Petit as Iokanaan and Andre Gilly as the captain of guards conducted by Auguste Amalou 2 Strauss s Salome was presented that season at the Opera with Mary Garden in the title role After having been performed at Nancy Le Havre Marseille Geneva and Prague Mariotte s Salome was seen at the Paris Opera on 1 July 1919 again with Breval in the title role After many years of neglect the Opera National de Montpellier presented both the Strauss and Mariotte versions of the opera in November 2005 3 In February March 2014 the Munchner Rundfunkorchester and soloists from the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding presented three performances at Munich s Prinzregententheater 4 Bayerischer Rundfunk Klassik live streamed the performance of 6 March on its website and recorded the final performance of 8 March for later radio broadcast on 26 April 2014 5 The opera was staged in October 2014 as part of the 2014 Wexford Festival Opera in Wexford Ireland conducted by David Angus 6 Musical style editMariotte s selection from the Wilde text was different from that of Strauss as was the musical style of the opera In comparison with the more famous Salome opera Mariotte s rich orchestral colours are sombre and the drama unfolds in a sequence of tableaux The characters are less extravagant and certainly less sexually charged the dense often contrapuntal sound world has its roots in 19th century academicism Mariotte uses an off stage orchestra for the banquet in the opening scene while the final scene uses a wordless chorus to add an enigmatic glow to Salome s ode to Iokanaan s head 7 A work rich in orchestral invention and emotional intensity Mariotte s Salome is in some respects rather more sympathetic to the original Symbolist mood Wilde wrote the play in French because he felt its poetic language belonged to fin de siecle sensibility Mariotte s version owes much to the sound world of Debussy and to the disengaged emotional landscape of Maeterlinck 3 who had highly praised Wilde s play 8 Roles editRole 9 Voice type Premiere cast 30 October 1908 Conductor Mariotte Herode Tetrarch of Judaea baritone Edouard Cotreuil Herodias his wife and niece contralto Soini Salome his stepdaughter and great niece soprano De Wailly Iokanaan John the Baptist baritone Jean Aubert Narraboth Young Syrian Captain of the Guard tenor Henry Grillieres The page of Herodias contralto Gerval First soldier tenor Van Laer Second soldier baritone Verheyden Royal guests Egyptians and Romans and entourage Nazarenes Jews servants soldiersRecording editThe 2005 Montpellier production was issued by Accord in 2007 conducted by Friedemann Layer with Kate Aldrich in the title role 10 The Bayerische Rundfunk has made its 2014 video recording available via its BR Klassik website 5 References editNotes Langham Smith 1997 p 220 Stoullig E Les Annales du Theatre et de la Musique 36eme edition 1910 Librairie Paul Ollendorf Paris 1911 p342 347 a b Maddocks Fiona Review in Opera March 2006 p 303 304 Bayerische Theaterakademie production page for Mariotte Salome Archived 2014 04 27 at archive today Accessed 27 April 2014 a b BR Klassik Die andere Salome Page accessed 27 April 2014 Wexford Festival Opera programme announcement for 2014 on wexfordopera com Shapiro Y Review of the CD Opera March 2007 Ellmann 1988 p Art Lyrique Recording details on allmusic com with listing of music tracks Sources Art Lyrique website Salome includes libretto critical commentary and performance history Ellmann Richard 1988 Oscar Wilde London Penguin Books New York Alfred A Knopf ISBN 0 394 55484 1 Langham Smith Richard 1998 Antoine Mariotte in New Grove Dictionary of Opera London and New York Macmillan Vol Three p 220 ISBN 0 333 73432 7 ISBN 1 56159 228 5 Rowden Clair The Other Salome Opera London October 2014 Volume 65 No 10 External links edit nbsp Media related to Salome Mariotte at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Salome Mariotte amp oldid 1191086051, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
