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 ...

Oscar Wilde's tragedy, Salome, was first translated into opera in 1905 by Richard Strauss. Combining dramatic vibratos and a seductive orchestral arrangement, Strauss' opera is intense to say the ...

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 ...

Was Amanda Seyfried surprised when the offer came to star in “Seven Veils,” a movie about the Biblical teen temptress Salome who had John the Baptist beheaded — and she was not going to be doing the ...

Director Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils has such a convoluted inspiration to it, and such deeply metaphorical and literal ties to its own filmmaker’s history, that it’s difficult to do its meta-layers ...

Atom Egoyan’s latest film, starring Amanda Seyfried as a director of an opera, could only have come from him, in ways both good and bad. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an ...

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 ...