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The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Richard Strauss’s Salome was a true succès de scandale at its 1905 premiere and for some years thereafter. The ...
Two films directed by Pacino, "Wilde Salomé" and "Salomé," preserve an ill-fated theater production of one of Wilde's lesser-known plays. Both miss the mark in the era of Me Too. Al Pacino is not who ...
Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion. We ...
Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free is an awkward mouthful of a title, but this biographical study of a trailblazing nineteenth-century intellectual offers a worthwhile history lesson. The ...
On the heels of their recent showings as part of an extensive Al Pacino retrospective at New York City’s Quad Cinemas comes the long-delayed theatrical premiere of a pair of Pacino-helmed, ...