The clarinet opens this opera with a rising scale split halfway between C-sharp major and G major.After one character condemns the protagonist's mother, she replies by praising that character's ivory skin,black hair, and red 
The clarinet opens this opera with a rising scale split halfway between C-sharp major and G major.After one character condemns the protagonist's mother, she replies by praising that character's ivory skin,black hair, and red mouth. The opening motif of this opera plays again as the moon disappears behind theclouds, shortly before the protagonist is crushed to death by soldiers' shields at the command of herstepfather. At this opera's premiere, Marie Wittich refused to perform "the Dance of the Seven Veils." Thisopera's libretto was based on Hedwig Lachmann's translation of an Oscar Wilde play. For 10 points, namethis Richard Strauss opera whose title character asks for the head of the prophet Jochanaan.
The clarinet opens this opera with a rising scale split halfway between C-sharp major and G major.
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