Words and music and pictures?

Richard Strauss’ Salome opens April 21st at Canadian Opera Company in a production by Atom Egoyan.  Curiously, this is a piece I know well in three languages as besides the Hedwig Lachmann German translation I own a bilingual edition containing both the original French text and Wilde’s own English translation.  My copy is one of a limited edition published by the Limited Edition Club in 1938.  It contains the English text with reproductions of the original Beardsley illustrations as well as a separate volume of the French text illustrated with pochoirs by Fauvist André Derain.  Here’s an example.

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There are a dozen photos of text and illustrations from the French volume here for people who like that sort of thing.