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Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates as Strauss conjures up the brutality of Herod's corrupt court. Richard Strausss opera at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Romeo Castellucci at the Felsenreitschule, was nothing short of a sensation. Debuting in the title role, Asmik Grigorian ...
- Henning Kasten
Salome. (1953 film) Salome is a 1953 American drama Biblical film directed by William Dieterle and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Jesse Lasky Jr. The music score was by George Duning, the dance music by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by Charles Lang. Rita Hayworth's costumes were designed by Jean Louis.
- $4.75 million (US), 3,0047,090 admissions (France)
- Buddy Adler
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In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are ...
Nov 29, 2009 · Salome (1918). You can’t keep a bad girl down… Attempting to gather all the painted representations of Salomé would be a foolish enterprise, there are far too many especially when you reach the 19th century, an age whose misogyny found an ideal expression in the emasculating temptress.
Salome is the 1953 biblical drama directed by William Dieterie. Starring Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger and Charles Laughton in a story of Princess Salome who is cast out of Rome and falls in love with the commander of her fathers army whilst her evil mother plots to exploit Salome to get a prophet killed.
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- Columbia Pictures, The Beckworth Corporation
- William Dieterle
Salome: Directed by William Dieterle. With Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson. After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias.
Jun 7, 2021 · Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play Salome gave a particularly sensual take on her character, describing her as trying to seduce John the Baptist, being rejected, and then bringing about his doom. Looking just at what the New Testament passages tell us about Salome, we don’t get enough information to know if there’s an erotic subtext to this story.
