This color film reprises the female impersonator Adrian's nightclub act of the same name: "'Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils' introduced the Club 82's new season to New Yorkers, in 1958. It was ...
The tale of Salome, the Judean princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist from her stepfather, King Herod, is well-known, not only for its horrifying events, but for its scandalous Dance of ...
Jewish performers and spectators have long been bewitched by Salome, an otherwise obscure minor character name-checked by the historian Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews. As a new study by Cecily ...
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...
Art and life are inextricably entangled in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, a wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as ...
Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar achieved entrance to the Underworld by dancing at each of the seven gates of Hell. Dropping a veil each time, she entered ...
TIFF: The filmmaker reunites with his “Chloe” star for an opaque drama about the slippage between art and life. Near the climax of Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome,” the title character performs the ...
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A new era is born.
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