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# Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden

**Brand:** maria ewingmichael devlinderek bailey
**Price:** € 36.40
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- **What is this?** Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden by maria ewingmichael devlinderek bailey
- **How much does it cost?** € 36.40 with free shipping
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## Description

In this play, a father is so infatuated with his step-daughter, that he promises her up to half his kingdom if she performs the libidinous "Dance of the Seven Veils" for him.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Boycott Kultur
  

*by A***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2007*

All right.  I asked for it.  Despite my previous resolution not to buy another Kultur DVD ever again I bought this.  I had the video, which like almost all Kultur products was, from the technical aspect, second rate.  However, the performances of all the major singer/actors, particularly Maria Ewing and Michael Devlin are outstanding; as is the staging.  In preparation for the new Salomes about to be released (Teresa Stratas and Karita Matilla) I wanted to have  another viewing of this landmark production.  My hope was that the DVD would be better than the video.Silly me!!  I foolishly thought that Kultur would have cleaned it up the way  responsible companies do before releasing a video as a DVD.  But no.  Just as with their "Turandot", they start with a shoddy video and rerelease it as a shoddy DVD.  The sound (stereo only) and vision are muddy.  The subtitles are in English only and cannot be turned off.  There are no liner notes and no extras.So why, you may ask, am I giving it 5 stars?  It is for the same reason I would give the Caballe "Norma" five stars despite its flawed recording.  This is a unique excellent production.  Would that any other company than Kultur had produced this DVD!!As I wrote in my review of their "Turandot":  I wish Kultur would go bankrupt and get out of the way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fabulous production, a big surprise for me
  

*by A***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2015*

I bought this because I saw a video of Maria Ewing singing Carmen, because I had not heard of her before and thought she was wonderful, but not because I really expected to like the opera. Disclosure: I am an amateur classical musician of many years experience, but am far from being an opera buff. I was surprised. Strauss' music is hardly what you could call melodic, but it gives truly thrilling expression to the plot and the emotions of the characters. Not much of it is really nice, but it is very intense, and when it is discordant it is so for a reason. I won't presume to review Maria Ewing, except to say she's a fabulous singer, and has the most expressive face and body of any singer I have ever seen. She even dances, and, yes, she does stand on stage nude, full frontal, at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils. The emotional content and symbolism of this plot, originally Oscar Wilde's, is VERY dense and complex...whew! The supporting cast and orchestra and production are excellent, and Michael Devlin as an almost supernatural John the Baptist nearly steals the show in the scenes in which he appears.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Living Hell in your own living room.
  

*by F***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2004*

I have seen "Salome" at Covent Garden (not this production) and the Met, but I have never felt so felt its intensity.  I think this may be, in a curious way, a "chamber" opera; its focus is so on nuances of obsession (usually sexual, of course) that it benefits from close quarters.  I have seen Maria Ewing only in this one role, but in this she is stunning; first sinister, then frightening (because wierdly believable), then monstrous.  Her two foils are this production's Herod: coward, lecher, bully, but in the end convincingly holding to some limit to indecency; and Johannan (the Baptist), chaste as ivory (as the lady says) and as passionately so as the lady is vile.  The orchestra is good, the musical interpretation is right (neither tame nor manic) and the staging, with its creepy moon, suggestive dungeon, and hommages to Klimpt and Beardsley just exactly right.  Terrific!  Turn your own living room into Sodom and Gommorah.

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