The opera SALOME opens in Toronto
VIDEO: Stephen Weir interview Atom Egoyan. A short film by George Socka . Headless in Judeau – Atom Egoyan Dials Back the Kink By Stephen Weir Curtain Call - Dress Rehearsal For Salome - Canadian Opera Company - Toronto Photo by George Socka Article appeared first in Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-weir/headless-in-judea-atom-eg_b_3132312.html Atom Egoyan believes it wasn’t adolescent angst that made a young princess demand the head of a prophet as payment for dirty dancing in front of her stepfather. No, says the Canadian filmmaker ( Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter , Chloe ) who is back directing the revival of the opera Salome, it is all about voyeurism, frustrated desire, paranoia and the decay of the human soul. The Canadian Opera Company’s 8-performance run of Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss’s Salome, at the Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts in Toronto, marks the return of the celebrated Canadian di...