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Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden
 
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Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden (1992)

Maria Ewing (Actor), Michael Devlin (Actor), Derek Bailey (Director) | Rated: NR | Format: DVD
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While not everyone's idea of a proper opera singer, there's no denying soprano Maria Ewing's artistry as a performer, which is why her portrayal of Strauss's (and, from the original play, Oscar Wilde's) heroine in this 1992 staging is so riveting to watch. Her intensity, often misdirected in other portrayals, is focused on the teenage temptress she's playing, and she even performs a credibly sexy dance of the seven veils. Her then-husband, director Sir Peter Hall, makes sure that the audience sees his wife in the altogether at its conclusion (admittedly something not too many opera singers could pull off).

Otherwise, Sir Peter's production is properly strange, making viewers squirm while watching so many abhorrent people onstage. Michael Devlin is in strong voice as John the Baptist, and Kenneth Riegel makes Tetrarch the heinous devil he surely is. Edward Downes and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House bring out every thrilling aspect of the young Strauss's still-disturbing score. --Kevin Filipski

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Opera of events in the court of Herod, who wants Salome and fears John the Baptist.
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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "Salome" (finally) on DVD, June 11, 2002
This review is from: Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden (DVD)
When I found out that a version of "Salome" had finally come out on DVD, I became very excited. For one thing, this was one version I didn't already own on videotape. I also wanted to see for myself Maria Ewing's infamous portrayal of Salome, which I had heard quite a bit about. Of course, much of this infamy comes from her willingness to take the "Dance of the Seven Veils" to its logical extreme... without even a flesh-colored body stocking to make it more "acceptable" to staid opera fans. Aside from the obvious tabloid titillation of this aspect of her performance, her singing of the role might seem controversial as well. I will concede that, unlike a diligent opera singer, she doesn't hit all the notes "properly." But then, this ain`t bel canto opera. In my opinion, it actually adds an interesting dimension to the role.... rather than going "back" to Richard Wagner, Ewing occasionally takes the role "forward" to Kurt Weill, growling like a cabaret singer, sometimes teetering on the brink of sprechstimme (listen as she waits impatiently for the severed head of Jochanaan, the object of Salome`s sexual obsession).

As Jochanaan, Michael Devlin looks appropriately emaciated with pale blue body makeup and beyond-waist-length hair, making him resemble that musical anti-Christ Marilyn Manson (even though Strauss actually preceded him in that category by about a century). Devlin's Jochanaan is also more pleading in spreading the gospel than singers in other versions, who make him seem more of a great proclaimer. Nonetheless, he still does come off as fanatical... just with a slightly more hysterical edge than other Jochanaans.

Considering the opera's time period, the nods to Aubrey Beardsley and Gustav Klimt in the stage design are very appropriate. I definitely prefer this to Luc Bondy's humorless and snottily spare stage design in the Dohnanyi/Malfitano/Terfel video, which looks like someone set things up for Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" by mistake. And if you want realism, you have it in the deathly pale and bloody severed head that Salome cavorts with in the final scene.

The Covent Garden Orchestra under Edward Downes plays quite well. But then, one has to work hard to mess up "Salome" (like making it tamer than it really is). When compared with other versions, however, the orchestra does not attack the "loud" sections with as much verve and flare as others, such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the Sinopoli/Malfitano/Estes video. On the other hand, the orchestra seems more at home in the more waltz-like sections.

As the first "Salome" on DVD, this is a very welcome addition to my relatively small DVD collection. Ingenues to the opera should be sufficiently entertained, and there's enough orchestral flare and campy humor to please die-hard "Salome" fans (particularly stepdad Herod's requisite lechery and mama Herodias` Mrs Slocombe-like hairdo). Nevertheless, I still prefer the Sinopoli/Malfitano/Estes video overall. I can only hope that it will also be taken out of VHS limbo soon and placed on DVD.

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Living Hell in your own living room., June 6, 2004
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This review is from: Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden (DVD)
I have seen "Salome" at Covent Garden (not this production) and the Met, but I have never felt so felt its intensity. I think this may be, in a curious way, a "chamber" opera; its focus is so on nuances of obsession (usually sexual, of course) that it benefits from close quarters. I have seen Maria Ewing only in this one role, but in this she is stunning; first sinister, then frightening (because wierdly believable), then monstrous. Her two foils are this production's Herod: coward, lecher, bully, but in the end convincingly holding to some limit to indecency; and Johannan (the Baptist), chaste as ivory (as the lady says) and as passionately so as the lady is vile. The orchestra is good, the musical interpretation is right (neither tame nor manic) and the staging, with its creepy moon, suggestive dungeon, and hommages to Klimpt and Beardsley just exactly right. Terrific! Turn your own living room into Sodom and Gommorah.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, December 14, 2001
By Flint Lock "Flint Lock" (Tequesta, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden (DVD)
Miss Ewing in the title role was up the task from beginning to end. There are very very few in opera who can meet the high standards of singing with looks to match. Usually, we will allow them to be only close to the character they play IF their vocal ability is outstanding. But, in Miss Ewing's case, there was no compromise in either area. I can and do cast great prase upon Peter Hall and the rest of the cast, but "Salome" stands or falls on its primary star, and she was exactly that. This DVD Opera is among my most prized, and I have played it for friends to their total joy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Salome
I am not really a fan of Strauss operas. They are too dark and ponderous for my taste. But I have treasured an old vinyl record of his "Dance of the Seven Veils' on one side,... Read more
Published on February 23, 2008 by Richard Brower

3.0 out of 5 stars Triumph of a nasty teenager, or nudity is not always sensuous
Plenty of veils, plenty of posturing, plenty of writhing, plenty of bouncing breasts, plenty of nudity, but little great singing and even less good acting. Read more
Published on October 15, 2007 by Mr John Haueisen

5.0 out of 5 stars Boycott Kultur
All right. I asked for it. Despite my previous resolution not to buy another Kultur DVD ever again I bought this. Read more
Published on July 10, 2007 by Archie

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb technique
Many of the reviews complain about Ewing's vocality, but this is exactly what makes the performance so blood-chilling perfect. Read more
Published on March 18, 2007 by Andrew N. Lenz

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo to all, especially Ewing
Oh my God! I just finished watching this. Maria Ewing is amazing. Her intense focus is wonderful. I saw a live performance of Salome a few years ago in the midwest and wished the... Read more
Published on July 14, 2006 by Robert P. Pherigo

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't know much about Strauss operas..
As an opera-loving friend of mine and I were discussing John the Baptist, he suggested that I watch "Salome" if I wanted a gruesome "take" on the story. And gruesome it is. Read more
Published on March 12, 2006 by Jean E. Pouliot

4.0 out of 5 stars salome with rough edges
The production concentrates on the opera as it was written, that is without glossing over the difficulties (for instance, it is nearly impossible to sing Salome's part without... Read more
Published on March 9, 2006 by William George

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
Maria Ewing completely embodies Salomé - watching her become Salomé transports you to another world entirely. Highly recommended! Read more
Published on January 20, 2006 by Matt Mangialetti

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre "Salome"
So-so singing from Ewing. She should stick to Carmen which she does extremely well (and both videos she has done will attest to that). Read more
Published on October 9, 2005 by Albert Herring

5.0 out of 5 stars Follows Oscar Wilde's suggestions
I liked the designing extremely.
All of Wilde suggestions are here, for example - purple Herod, green Salome, big yellow full moon... Read more
Published on August 24, 2005 by Viewer

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