SIR David McVicar’s 2008 staging of Strauss’s Salome, in its third revival, still delivers a hefty punch. The last 20 minutes are stunning as the naked executioner emerges from the underground cistern drenched in blood and bearing the head of John the Baptist – the reward Salome demands from stepfather King Herod for her dance of the seven veils.
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