Massenet's Hérodiade is as sprawling as Strauss' Salome is compact, with a plot that bears so little resemblance to the story in Mark's gospel (no dance before Herod, no request for John's head on a platter -- only Herodias' desire for revenge against John the Baptist remains) that it makes Oscar Wilde's version seem like the work of a Biblical ...
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