“Seven Veils,” starring Amanda Seyfried, is the result. The themes are deadly serious: In the fictional narrative cooked up by Egoyan, staging this “Salome” finds Seyfried’s fraught ...

the huge orchestra the opera requires and the added demand of performing Salome’s sexually charged, nine-minute dance of the seven veils. “It is one of the most challenging roles you’ll ever ...

He draws his title from Strauss’s “Dance of the Seven Veils,” during which Salome dances for Herod, the king having pledged ...