This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Jochanaan, her venomous hatred when she's rejected, the crazed look in her eyes when she demands his head--on a silver platter, no less. Such complete identification with a role, especially of a character so malignant helps make this 1974 Salome stand out among the many fine DVDs of the opera.
Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House)
Music, Comedy
0.0
Die Zauberflöte
Family, Comedy, Music
7.0
Confession of the Vanished
Documentary, Music
8.0
Verdi La Traviata
Music
0.0
The Phantom of the Opera
Horror, Music
7.1
Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore
Music
0.0
Amadeus
History, Music, Drama
8.0
Tancredi
Music
0.0
Vecchia
Drama
0.0
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
Music
0.0
Brainland
Music, Drama
0.0
Der Freischütz
Music, Drama
0.0
Macbeth
Music
0.0
Manon Lescaut
Music
6.0
Semiramide
Drama, Music
8.0
La Finta Giardiniera
Music
0.0
Figaros Hochzeit
Romance, Music, Comedy
0.0
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
Fantasy, Music
7.7
The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
Drama, Music
8.0
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma
Music, Drama
0.0