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22 hours ago · Dispatch. May 30, 2024. Losing your head. by. Veronica Gabrielle. On Richard Strauss’s Salome, directed by Lydia Steier, at the Opéra Bastille. On May 9, the Opera Bastille saw one of the most anticipated debuts of the international operatic season: the soprano Lise Davidsen’s first Salome. Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s play, Richard ...
1 day ago · Salome (Lise Davidsen) is entranced by Jochanaan (John Reuter, in cage). Upstairs, a glass atrium houses an orgy fantasy masquerade party. Our vision is obfuscated by the smeared glass. Men, women, and sex-workers slither awkwardly like lascivious snakes in a pit. Temptation is no longer a titillation or a considered moral value.
2 days ago · Opéra de Paris 2024 Review: Salome. Whether you liked it or not, Lydia Steier’s “Salome” was the event of last season. Bleeding bodies, shooting guns, nudity, and rape; it was an R-rated “Salome.”. Its provocations echoed both Wilde’s spirit and current discussions of gender, capitalism, and harassment. In this revival, the story ...
2 days ago · At loggerheads over the "foreign influence" law, Georgia's pro-Russian prime minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, and pro-European president, Salome Zourabichvili, accused each other of treason on Georgia ...
1 day ago · Salome Arenas cooks up a fresh batch of tamales at her home in Santa Rosa, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Arenas is now teaching cooking classes to packed houses at local libraries. (Kent Porter / The ...
2 days ago · How would Moreno-Garcia tie up all the loose ends and political drama of Salome’s world and Vera’s struggle in 1950’s-1960’s Hollywood? Everything came to a climactic finish at the last 10% of the book, and though it was bittersweet, there were no other ways that it could have ended.
22 hours ago · Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Madeleine Schmitz translated Ma. Ein Porträt, one of the rare first editions of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s works housed by Special Collections.
