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Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.
The libretto is a retelling of the story of John the Baptist, Salome, Herod Antipas and Herodias, but is strikingly less psychological and bloody than Richard Strauss's Salome, based on a text by Oscar Wilde. The opera premiered in Brussels because Auguste-Edouard Vaucorbeil, Manager of the Paris Opera house refused to stage the work; "I do like your music," he had said to Massenet, "but as for the libretto, you badly need an author who knows how to build the skeleton of a play."
Hérodiade de Stéphane Mallarmé: Recitation orchestrale is a composition by Paul Hindemith written in June 1944 on commission from Martha Graham, supported by funds from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The ballet premiered under the title of Herodiade (but had originally been titled Mirror before Me) in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The premiere took place on 30 October 1944, sharing the program with Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Darius Milhaud's Jeux du printemps (Graham's ballet title was Imagined Wing), with Martha Graham and May O'Donnell in the leading roles. The choreography was by Martha Graham, stage design was by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and costumes by Edythe Gilfond.
Hérodiade and Hérodias are French versions of the name of Herodias, wife of Herod II (with whom she had Salome), and later of Herod Antipas. The French version of the name may refer to:
- Hérodias (short story), third of Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
- Hérodias, one of the characters in Oscar Wilde's original French version of Salome (play)
- Hérodias, one of the characters in Mariotte's opera Salomé (Mariotte)
- Hérodiade, opera in four acts by Jules Massenet, based on Flaubert's "Hérodias"
- Hérodiade, poetry by Stéphane Mallarmé
- Hérodiade (ballet), ballet music by Paul Hindemith based on Mallarmé's poem, premiered in 1944