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    Oct 19, 2022 3 minutes

    SALOME

    The cartouches on the Royal Opera House’s red tableau curtains were empty on the opening night of the revival of David McVicar’s staging of Richard Strauss’s Salome on 9th September.

    The gold-embroidered monograms of the old monarch had not yet been replaced by those of the new.

    It was a memorable evening, partly because it was the first in the reign of the house’s erstwhile patron, the Prince of Wales, now King, partly because of the unadulterated

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