Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the ...

Salome - the daughter in question - performed an enchanting dance on Herod's birthday to the delight of the king and his guests. The New Testament documents, "The king said to the girl ...

Oscar Wilde's biblical tale of lust and revenge, Salome follows the legend of King Herod (Al Pacino) and his unbridled desire for Salome (Marisa Tomei), the young daughter of his wife, Herodias ...

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) spent her financially distressed final decade enthralled by the life of King Herod and working on a novel about him. The books of the 1930s and ’40s that made her ...

According to lore, Salome is step-daughter to King Herod Antipas, who asks her to dance at a dinner and is so riveted by her seductive performance that he offers her whatever she wants as reward.

The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by Pompey in 65 B.C., the appointment of King Herod the ... Baptist's beheading as Salome's price for dancing for Herod.

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet ...

Catherine Naglestad makes her Met debut in the tour-de-force role of Salome, part innocent and part ... Gerhard Siegel is Herod, and Johannes Debus conducts.

At the start, this grim khaki fortress (with Soviet-heroic sculptures of Herod and Salome) is patrolled by equally colourless mediaeval/futurist soldiers, as Jochanaan booms from his barred dungeon, ...