Created by Sir Peter Hall in 1990, this production caused something of a sensation when Maria Ewing, in the title role, finished her "Dance of the Seven Veils" in a state of full frontal nudity. But in the first appearances of the production in Los Angeles, Ewing did initially conclude Salome's dance with what the Los Angeles Times' Martin Bernheimer called a "golden postage stamp." But she later discarded it both there and elsewhere, calling it "vulgar" in one interview. "Wearing a G-string is like a tease and in no way is this dance a tease," she says. "She is in her own world in that dance. She is not doing it for anyone else."
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