The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
"SALOME" Is. SENSATION
OF CITIES OF EUROPE
Richard Strauss Is Having Ample Revenge for the
Exclusion Of Opera in Ne.v York

''Salome," scorned in the United
States, is the sensation of Europe.
No opera written5 since Wagner
started a world of controversy with
his "Parsifal," has called for such dis
cussion as the childfgof the genius of
Richard Strauss, turned from the Met
ropolitan opera house in disgust be-
cause Americans objected to what
they called it's sacrsIigeous plot, the
immortality of the "D&nce of the Seven
veils,' the horror Of that final Incl
dent where Salome kisses the severed
head of John the Baptist.
London, Paris, Berlin and Rome
have widely acclaimed that which
made New York shudder.
The opera may even become a po-
litical issue in France because of the
expressed determination of President
Fallieres to bestow the Legion of Hon
or on Composer Strauss.
Those who oppose the plan do not
case their objections on any prejudice,
moral or artistic, against "Salome."
It is only because Strauss is a Ger
man, traditional foe of France, that
they oppose this highest of all honors.
When Wagner's .''Tannhauser" and
"Lohengrin'' were produced in Paris,
it took soldiers to Quell the riots rails
ed by those who hated the composer
and his works. But now Strauss is
welcomed and lionized. -
Truly he has nothing for which to
blame his "Salome," even though it
was not welcomed in the United
States. @
The European vogue of the work
has produced a whole harvest of ''Sa-
lomes,' and every singer with any
qualifications whatever for the diff
cult role is now frantically studying it
in order to qualify for the many per-
formances being planned.
The costumers of Paris who are
called upon to dress nearly all the he
roines of the opera stage, report them
selves as being unable to meet the de-
mands for "Salome" costumes.
Every prima donna wants a differ
ent kind of makeup, and model that
suits one will be entirely discarded by
another.
New York saw beautiful Salome
when the daughter Of Herodias in the
person of Olive Fremstad passed be-
fore the vision of the one audience
permitted to behold Der at the Metro
politan.
Miss Fremstad had consulted the
most famous Of French costumers as
to the best means of appropriately in
|creasing her own beauty and making
herself look like "a silver flower and a
narcissus trembling in the wind
The Salome dress of Miss Fremstad
was intensely Partisan so far as it's
paillettes and it's chiffon ruffles were
concerned.
The long blue velvet cloak that
trailed sinuously over the floor was a
beautiful detail of the costume in the
scenes that preceded the dance, and
the net of pale blue satin strips and
applied gems that hung over the silk
petticOat was a characteristic and or
namental feature of the costume So
was the gold fringe on the bottom of
the skirt.
Beautiful Mata Hari has proved one
Of the most talented and entrancingly
costumed Salomes to appear in the
gay French capital. Her impersona-
ton of the difficult character is said
to be nothing short of bewitching.
Emmy Destinn of the Royal opera
house, Berlin, had the good fortune to
be picked for the role in the perform
ances at Berlin and Paris, and added
much to her fame thereby. The stat
nesQue and lovely Breval very much