A site known as the 'Cave of Salome' in the Judean Foothills might have been the burial site of King Herod’s sister, rather than that of a disciple of Jesus, according to a new paper published ...

Onlookers stand at right. At left is a banquet table, King Herod and his guests reclining on couches. Recto, below: Salome dances in the foreground of a large hall with a long banquet table pictured ...

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A new study suggests that the Salome buried in this tomb was, in fact, not the apocryphal Biblical figure, but rather the younger sister of Judean king Herod the Great.

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s ...

After Jokanaan rejects her, Salome performs the “Dance of the Seven Veils,” which is a sort of balletic strip tease. Herod is so lecherously pleased, he offers her anything she wants.

Salome, in the grisly final scene, reasserts a degree of tonal stability, but dissonant uproar resumes when Herod commands her death. The curtain has gone up on twentieth-century chaos.

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.

The final cistern scene, in which a blood-daubed Elza van den Heever as Salome finally kisses the head, is a masterstroke.

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The first new Metropolitan Opera production of "Salome" in 20 years takes a surreal, psychological approach to Strauss's 1905 opera.

Instead, what’s truly shocking is the gradually unfolding suggestion of sexual abuse, culminating in the Dance of the Seven Veils, with which Salome demands that Herod give her the head of ...