 Verdi's works continued to remain popular, however, with audiences in Italy, the Spanish-speaking countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, and in Germany, where there was a major Verdi revival in Berlin between the wars.Outside the field of Italian opera, an important addition to the Austro-German repertory occurred in 1905.This was the premiere of Richard Strauss's "Salome", with the pivotal part of John the Baptist assigned to a baritone.