Performances in N.Y.C. 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. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar achieved entrance to the Underworld by dancing at each of the seven gates of Hell. Dropping a veil each time, she entered ...

Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...

In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...

Watching Jim Parsons do the Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome was probably not on your 2020 bingo card. It wasn't on his either, but yet the actor found himself tackling this wild, somewhat ...