This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Jochanaan, her venomous hatred when she's rejected, the crazed look in her eyes when she demands his head--on a silver platter, no less. Such complete identification with a role, especially of a character so malignant helps make this 1974 Salome stand out among the many fine DVDs of the opera.
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Phantom hunter duo Brio and Drusilla clash with an Opera singer from another realm.
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Concert and documentary celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Moscow’s Zaryadye Hall
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
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Julie Taymor’s kaleidoscopic production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an encore p...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
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Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...