The actress Alla Nazimova’s Salome is a spoiled ... The dance began with Salome (played by the renowned stage animal Karita Mattila) dressed in a version of a man’s tuxedo jacket with tails ...

And in the morbid spectacle of Salome kissing John’s severed head—as seen in Oscar Wilde’s 1893 play, the source for Strauss’s 1905 adaptation—it still has the power to shock.

I read Oscar Wilde’s play “Salome,” and then I went to see Richard ... who was an African American actress. These were very talented women who got Oscar nominations. They could sing, they ...

An actress portrays Salome in 1906. Photo by Getty Images But ... a Christian martyr, in a 1911 mystery play with music by Claude Debussy, giving shpilkes to her French Jewish producer Gabriel ...

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“Daughter of Sodom, come not near me!” Jokanaan tells Salome in the play. “But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son ...