Who wrote the operas Salome and Elektra?
Salome when John spurns her affections. In the finale, Salome takes up John's severed head and kisses it. Because at the time British law forbade the depiction of biblical characters on stage, Wilde wrote the play originally in French, and then produced an English translation (titled "Salome"). To this Granville Bantock composed incidental music, which was premiered at the Court Theatre, London, on 19 April 1918. The Wilde play (in a German translation by Hedwig Lachmann) was edited down to a one-act opera by Richard Strauss. The opera Salome, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, is famous for the Dance of
Elektra (opera) of the ancient Greek myth. Compared to Sophocles's "Electra", the opera presents raw, brutal, violent, and bloodthirsty horror. Ståle Wikshåland has analysed the use of time and temporality in the dramaturgy of "Elektra". "Elektra" is the second of Strauss's two highly modernist operas (the other being "Salome"), characterized by cacophonous sections and atonal leitmotifs. These works highly contrasts with his earliest operas and his later period. The reception of "Elektra" in German-speaking countries was mostly divided amongst traditionalist and modernist lines. "Elektra" is one of the most frequently performed operas based on classical Greek mythology. "Elektra" received its UK premiere