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Ljuba Welitsch her first Salome

1/5/2024, 21 Tracks, 1:34:40

Featuring

  • Ljuba Welitsch
  • Kerstin Thorborg
  • Herbert Janssen
  • Frederick Jagel
  • Brian Sullivan
  • Hertha Glaz
  • Leslie Chabay
  • Thomas Hayward
  • Alessio de Paolis
  • Paul Franke
  • Gerhard Pechner
  • Dezső Ernster
  • Emery Darcy
  • Jerome Hines
  • Philip Kinsman
  • Osie Hawkins
  • Fritz Reiner
  • Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
  • Richard Strauss

Did you know?

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Recording & Production

This recording is a live performance from the Metropolitan Opera in New York on March 12, 1949.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Ljuba Welitsch, who performs Salome on this recording, is featured on the front cover.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The recording has undergone 24-bit remastering.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Richard Strauss, the composer of Salome, lived from 1864 to 1949.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Fritz Reiner conducts this performance of Salome.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Salome is a music-drama in one act, based on Oscar Wilde's poem of the same name, translated into German by Hedwig Lachmann.

Source: Booklet

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