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Salome in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th May 2025The Met’s new production of Strauss’s Mach 2 one-act opera was telecast today. Director Claus Guth, who made his Met debut in this production, placed the location in a dark building in some hard to place time. It certainly wasn’t biblical Galilee or Perea. Before I get to the performance, a word about inflation. Up…
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Salome in Santa Fe
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th August 2015John the Baptist lost his head last night in Ruritania. That seems to me to be where director Daniel Slatter set Strauss’s sonic boom. I expected the Prisoner of Zenda to appear before Narraboth killed himself. All the men except the Baptist were dressed like they thought the show was written by a different Strauss…
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