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Review: The Met Opera’s New ‘Salome’ Fractures Its Princess
In his company debut, the director Claus Guth takes a psychological approach, surrounding the title character with six ...
At the Met, an unsettling new vision of ‘Salome’ unfolds like a dream
The first new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” in 20 years takes a surreal, psychological approach to Strauss’s 1905 ...
Soprano Elza van den Heever has nightmares from her disturbing portrayal of `Salome'
Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on ...
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Soprano Elza van den Heever has nightmares from her disturbing portrayal of `Salome'
It is best known for the seductive dance of the seven veils that the princess performs for her lecherous stepfather in exchange for a gift of her choosing: the head of St. John the Baptist on a ...
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The Met makes Salome shock again by grounding it in childhood abuse — review
Today, directors often go to gratuitous extremes to preserve the opera’s power to shock, as Lydia Steier did for the Opera Bastille in Paris in 2022, in which the Dance of the Seven Veils was ...
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Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura
Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra in a performance in which orchestral color dazzled as much as the silvery, silken sheen of ...