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Salome review: Perversion writ large in this thrilling production
Opera Australia's Salome is a thrillingly-sung revival of a Gale Edwards production that emphasises the perverted, fetish-like aspect of Strauss' sadistically sensationalist reading of Wilde's Symbolist text.
- by Peter McCallum
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