Richard Todd:

>I'd be interested to hear from other listers what you've seen in terms of
>nudity and sexual explicitness in this opera, and to what extent you think
>such things are desirable or even essential.

Actually, the most erotic version of Salome I've ever seen were the
Beardsley drawings, and there she's (mostly) clothed.  In fact, the nekkid
stuff is pretty chaste, even slightly funny.

Steve Schwartz