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MYSTERIES OF LOVE.("Salome" )(Opera Review)
The first time the Metropolitan Opera staged Richard Strauss's "Salome," ninety-seven years ago, J. P. Morgan's daughter blanched at the sight of a soprano making out with a severed head, and the production was shut down after one night. The ballerina who had performed the Dance of the Seven Veils on the Met stage decided to take her act to a vaudeville house, where she had a considerably warmer reception. America was soon in the grip of a Salome craze. In January, 1909, Strauss's opera reappeared in triumph at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House, with the bewitching Mary Garden in the title role. Not long afterward, a singing waiter at Jimmy Kelly's, in Union ...
- Salome Dances With A Kabuki-Inspired Twist
- Newspaper article from: AsianWeek Gary Gach October 7, 1994 700+ words
Gary Gach AsianWeek 10-07-1994 Salome Dances With A Kabuki-Inspired Twist. The legend of Salom, the...distinctive, energetic style of San Francisco's Knee Jerk Dance Project. Salom is played by leading Kabuki actor Kyozo Nakamura...
- Nude Salome dance puts town in a spin.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) January 19, 2005 700+ words
...Sheringham, Norfolk, centres on a production in March of Oscar Wilde's Salome, in which Shakespearean actress Helen Barford, 29, is removing her clothes during an erotic dance. But Tony Rothe, of Sheringham Baptist Church, said: "I do not...
- `Salome's Last Dance' lacks structure, purpose
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert June 17, 1988 700+ words
Salome's Last Dance (STAR) (STAR) Herodias/Lady...sounds like Wilde, and it gets "Salome's Last Dance" off to a rousing start, from...cost to their dignity, and in "Salome's Last Dance" such performers as Glenda Jackson...
- 'SALOME'S LAST DANCE' IS OUTRAGEOUS RUSSELL
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Michael Blowen, Globe Staff January 22, 1989 700+ words
...images that burst beyond the conventional narrative flow. In "Salome's Last Dance" (1988, Vestron), available this week on home video, Russell...HOMEVID2 Caption: PHOTO Starford Johns and Glenda Jackson on "Salome's Last Dance."
- Dance of `Salome' has a few missteps.(Metropolitan Times)(Features)(Theater)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Pressley, Nelson October 29, 1997 700+ words
...Wilde a run for his money. "Salome," Wilde's take on the...story about the seductress who dances for a lecherous King Herod...straightforward: Herod begs Salome for one of her risque dances, and Salome refuses until he tells her...
- Before there was modern dance.(Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Langer, Cassandra May 1, 2008 700+ words
...performances. In Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance...and a pioneer of modern dance, theatrical lighting...arrived on the Parisian dance scene at a time when...demonstrate). Parisian dance enthusiasts were instantaneously...lighting. From Electric Salome: Swathed in a vast costume...
- 'SALOME' STILL RAISES EYEBROWS OPERA'S SIZZLING OPENER.(LIVING)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Hutton, Mary Ellyn June 20, 2000 700+ words
...advances. The drunken Herod asks Salome to dance for him in exchange for a gift...condemning her marriage to Herod, Salome dances. When she asks for Jokanaan...soldiers to kill her. Muni calls the dance ''the fulcrum point'' of the...
- The Salome factor: how the sexualization of concert dance helped end a golden...
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Deresiewicz, William March 22, 2005 700+ words
...regarded, and most vital of the arts: dance. From roughly the mid-'30s to the mid...Alvin Alley, and Mark Morris in modern dance. Audiences and institutions were built...some of the people who practice the art of dance had believed in it a little bit more...
