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Salome (lived 1st century AD)

In the New Testament, granddaughter of the king of Judea, Herod the Great. Rewarded for her skill in dancing, she requested the head of John the Baptist from her stepfather Herod Antipas.

Salome

Opera and ballet of the same name. The opera, by Richard Strauss (libretto from H Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play, which was written in French) was produced in Dresden, at the Royal Opera on 9 December 1905. The story is biblical: spurned by John the Baptist, Salome demands his severed head after performing a seven-veil striptease for lecherous Herod.

The ballet in two acts was composed by Peter Maxwell Davies and choreographed by Flemming Flindt. It was produced in Stockholm on 10 November 1978. The concert suite was performed in London on 6 March 1979.

See Tragédie de Salomé, La.



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It was a pleasing sight to see him, poised on one foot in the attitude of a Salome dancer, with one eye on the man with the ball, the other gazing coldly on the rest of the opposition forward line, uncurl abruptly like the main-spring of a watch and stop a hot one.
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