Teaser of the opera "Salome."

"The composer [Strauss] wrote that the Kaiser [Guilherme II] once said to his attendant: 'I am sorry that Strauss had composed Salome. I like him very much, but this work will cause him a lot of loss'. And he added, ironic: 'it was this loss that allowed me to buy my village in Garmsich'. The fact is that, while Guilherme II abdicated his throne after the German's defeat in World War I, in 1918, ending in this way the Prussian monarchy, Richard Strauss sill shows his majesty in symphonic rooms and opera theaters around the world." (Perpetuo)