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From: Opera News
Date: 19960501
Author:Innaurato, Albert

Denize, Studer; Heppner, Hampson, Van Dam; Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson. EMI 55378 (3) El Zajick, Fleming; Domingo, Pons, Cox; San Francisco Opera, Gergiev. Sony S2K-66847 (2)

Herodiade (1881), loosely based on a novella by Gustave Flaubert, turns on an ill-fated love between the orphaned, fragile (!) Salome and the sexually conflicted Jean (John the Baptist), while the dragon queen Herodiade (who abandoned the child Salome) meddles and the voyeur Herode (who craves Salome) looks on. The opera is long and uneven, though with his harmonic side-slips, coruscating orchestration and lilting ...

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