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Why was Salome not staged in Vienna during Gustav Mahler’s time there?
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Although Richard Strauss’s opera Salome achieved success in major opera houses following its 1905 premiere in Dresden, it was not staged in Vienna during Gustav Mahler’s tenure there because the local censor forbade it. The work was considered by some to be obscene and blasphemous, leading to its exclusion from the Viennese stage at that time.1