Salome | Opera review

Royal Opera House, LondonDavid McVicar's production of Salome reimagines Strauss in terms of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, which in turn relocates Sade's 120 Days of Sodom to fascist Italy. It provoked an equivocal response when it was new in 2008. Some felt that Nadja Michael's athletically acted but erratically sung Salome didn't fully capture the heroine's nature. Others were concerned that the fascist setting precluded any sense of psychological or moral disintegration: you can't, after all, ...

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