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.
Curse of the Black Cat
Drama, Mystery
4.9
Adriana Lecouvreur
Music
0.0
Wagner: Die Walküre
Music
0.0
Wagner: Parsifal
Drama, Music, History, Fantasy
0.0
Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Music, Drama
0.0
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Music
0.0
Dennis Cleveland
Documentary, Music, Drama
0.0
Carmen in 3D
Music, Drama
0.0
Cosi Fan Tutte
Music
0.0
Arabella
Music
0.0
Verdi: Otello
Music
0.0
The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century
Documentary, Music
0.0
Rigoletto
Music, Drama
5.0
La Gazza Ladra
Music
0.0
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
Music
0.0
Viva Vivaldi
Music
10.0
Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne
Music
0.0
Alceste
Music
0.0
Tamerlano
Music
0.0
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Music
3.0