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[rope creaking]

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[rope creaking]

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[forest sounds fade out]

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[mysterious score]

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[footsteps echo]

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[dramatic thud, rumble]

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[discordant piano music]

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[singing in German]

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[film projector whirring]

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[singing in German continues]

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- I'll be asked
to make this personal.

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So I shall.

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You are
always looking at her.

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You look at her too much.

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Something terrible
may happen.

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[soft dramatic score]

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[siren in distance]

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- Hi, I'm Clea.

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I work in the props department
here at the opera company.

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I'm going to be showing you
how I make the head

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of John the Baptist,

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uh, who, for those of you
who might not know the story,

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he is the biblical prophet
that gets beheaded

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by a woman called Salome.

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- Woman 1: We welcome back

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the wonderful Ambur Dione.

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[Woman 1 laughs]

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[female patron hoots]

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- So great to have you
back home, Ambur.

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And welcome to our company

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for his first appearance
with us,

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Johan Mueller.

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We're very excited to have

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these two
amazing singers with us

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and both are fresh
from a very,

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shall we say,
[clears throat]

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controversial production
of Salome in Stuttgart.

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[laughter]

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[murmuring]

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Sometime before my husband
passed away last year

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he made a very
specific request.

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Charles wanted
one of his former students

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to direct this remount
of Salome.

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I know that Charles worked
very closely with Jeanine

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on the original production
and so

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I'll let Jeanine
let us know

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what she plans to do
in the weeks ahead.

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Jeanine, would you
like to come forward

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and say a few words?

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[applause]

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- Working on this production
so many years ago

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changed my life.

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It was a huge gift.

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Just like being invited
to stage this remount is a...

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another...

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huge gift.

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Charles meant the world to me.

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Charles meant a lot
to many people.

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[suspenseful score]

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This morning, I-I...

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I took a moment

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to find his-his favorite spot
in the theatre,

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which is
this rehearsal bridge

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that connects the stage
to the audience

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just above the orchestra.
It's this--

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It's between
these two spaces.

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And he lo--
he loved being there.

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He... he loved being
in the heart of the action.

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And, now, we are here to...

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to honor his heart

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and his spirit

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in the best way
that we can.

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So, I will leave you with

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with the costume designs
and some images

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from the original show
and the maquette.

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The changes
that I will be making

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for this production
will be small but meaningful.

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And if anybody
has any questions

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I'd be happy to answer.

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Thank you.

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[applause]

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- That was a crazy production
- Yeah. [chuckles]

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- Do you remember
all those long talks

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that we had
about the role?

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- Ye-yeah,
I remember those talks.

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You had a huge impact on me.

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- Really?

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[gentle violin playing]
[soft conversations]

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- And after that,
I-I-I went to study

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with this amazing teacher
in London,

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but they were really expensive
so I ran outta money really fast

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- and I came back.
- And you kept working.

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- I've done
a lot of understudy roles.

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And I've done
some small things.

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- I'm here now.
- Covering John the Baptist.

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- And I'm covering Salome.

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- Hi.
- Rachel.

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- Rachel. Jeanine.
It's so nice to meet you.

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- You too.
- My two understudies.

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This'll be fun.

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- So, here's the basic plot
of the opera:

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Salome wants John the Baptist
to pay attention to her.

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She's crazy about him,
but he refuses.

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He won't even look at her
because he thinks

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that Salome's mother
is a whore.

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So, then, Salome's stepfather,
King Herod,

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he asks her to do
this sexy dance for him

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and he offers Salome

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anything that she wants
in return.

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So, Salome asks for

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the head
of John the Baptist,

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which is what
I'm working on here.

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She demands that her stepfather

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chop off John's head
and offer it up to her

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so that she may finally
kiss his lips.

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I guess you can see
it's a pretty weird love story.

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[dramatic piano music]

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Who is this woman
who is looking at me

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I will not
have her look at me

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Wherefore doth she look at me
with her golden eyes

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under her golden eyelids

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I know not who she is

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Bid her be gone

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It is not to her
that I would speak

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I am Salome
daughter of Herodias

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Princess of Judea

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Back
daughter of Babylon!

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Come not
near the chosen...

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- Johan! Johan, Johan.

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It's important that you
never look at Salome.

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From the moment you take
your blindfold off your eyes

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you never turn
to look at her.

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- That feels strange.

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- Well, you're demanding
that-that she repent

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and, in order to
get her to do that,

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she needs
to feel frightened of you.

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You need to let her understand
that you know

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the terrible things
that she's done.

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The cries of her sinning
are heard by God.

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You say that, right?

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You need her
to beg for forgiveness

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and you're not prepared
to look at her until she does.

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- But isn't it
her mother's cries and sinning

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I'm talking about?

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I think she's a whore.

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- They're one and the same
as far as you're concerned.

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Like mother, like daughter.

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[dramatic score]

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Okay, let's continue.

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[rope creaking]
[piano playing]

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How beautiful is
the Princess Salome tonight

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Look at the moon

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How strange
the moon seems

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She is like a woman
rising from a tomb

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[older woman laughing]

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- You have to
blow them out, Granny.

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- Where's Daddy?

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- Daddy, come. Granny wants
to blow out her candles.

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[granny laughs]

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- Woman 2: Where'd you find
those candles, Lizzie?

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- Daddy brought it.

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- They're a little big,
aren't they?

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We were gonna use sparklers, remember?

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Let's take this back
and put them on.

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- Shouldn't she
blow this out first?

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- Then what's the point
of the sparklers? [chuckles]

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We need to sing Happy Birthday
as we bring in the cake. Right?

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- Can't she just
blow these out?

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[laughing]

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- Okay, now, help me put
sparklers on the cake

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and we can do this properly.
Okay?

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- Come on.
- It's okay, honey.

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- Woman 2: Yeah.

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Sparklers.

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[blows air through lips]

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- That was weird.
- You think?

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- How's the
place you're staying?

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- It's nice.

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- Some rich opera patron?
- Yeah, they're away.

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- Weren't you gonna arrange--
- What were you doing upstairs?

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- I was showing Dimitra
your old CD collection.

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- Why?
- Where's Harold?

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- Harold died
last year, Margot.

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- Woman 2: Get ready.
Three, two, one.

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Happy birthday to you

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Happy birthday,
dear Margot...

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[tense score]

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- I really appreciate
you coming here

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and doing this.
I know how busy things are.

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- No problem.
- [score fades out]

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- So, this is the props room.

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This is, like,
one of my favorite places.

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You can see pretty much
all the props

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from every show
the opera company's ever done.

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- It's crazy.

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- And, uh, yeah, we've got
a bit of a collection going

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of severed heads here
from other productions.

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- Cute.

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- So, uh, like I said,
the company's asked me

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to do this thing about the head
kind of to market the show.

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- I get it.

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- And, uh, yeah,

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I thought it might be cool
to get a few words from you

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about what this prop means now
after so many years.

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- Okay.

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- (softly) Okay.

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So, uh, tell me about
working on this production

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all those years ago.

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- Well, I was
more of an observer.

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Like a, like an intern.

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- Like an observer...
to the director.

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- Yeah, I mean, we had
a lot of conversations.

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Uh, but I was still very much
Charles' student back then.

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- I gather that he was
a pretty big presence.

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- Yes, he was a
very big presence.

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Yes, Charles was
a very big presence.

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- What can you tell me
about him?

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Uh, why do you think
Salome asks for the head

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of John the Baptist?

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- Well, she says it
in the opera.

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She just wanted to--

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to kiss his lips
and he wouldn't let her.

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- Do you think
that's a little extreme?

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- Yes, it's extreme.

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But I guess
you need to see it as

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the first recorded sex crime
in biblical history.

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[dramatic piano music]

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Rejoice not
thou land of Palestine

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Because the rod of him

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Who struck thee is broken

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- So, Ambur,
at this moment

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this is when you can just
collapse onto the swing.

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[rope creaking]

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Just two hands, slowly,
gently just collapsing

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because his voice
is like a drug.

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His voice
makes you feel safe.

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Yeah. Good.
And, Johan,

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can you check the monitor
next to the camera, please?

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- Uh...
why is this my issue?

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- Well, you have to
position yourself back there,

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and we need to see your mouth
in the centre of the frame.

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And when you're singing,
you kind of, we lose you.

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- But can't the camera
move with me?

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- It's on a tripod.

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- Is that my problem?

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- Yeah, I'm--I, uh,
I'm-I'm, I'm sorry, it is.

258
00:16:13,848 --> 00:16:17,851
- No! My problem,
my job is to sing, right?

259
00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:21,939
You can amplify my voice
or project my lips

260
00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:25,859
but these technical issues
are your problem, not mine!

261
00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:27,903
[sound system screeches]

262
00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:30,572
- He's an asshole.
- [Johan whispers in German]

263
00:16:30,573 --> 00:16:33,992
Did you hear about him
in that production in Stuttgart?

264
00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:35,369
[feedback drones]

265
00:16:35,370 --> 00:16:37,205
It--[sighs]

266
00:16:40,542 --> 00:16:43,044
[phone ringing]

267
00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,674
- Hi, it's Paul.
Leave a message after the beep.

268
00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:50,384
[beep]
[intriguing score]

269
00:16:50,385 --> 00:16:52,761
- Does Paul
come to visit you often, Mom?

270
00:16:52,762 --> 00:16:55,098
- [mysterious score]
- Yes. It's nice.

271
00:16:57,726 --> 00:16:59,269
He likes Dimitra.

272
00:17:01,896 --> 00:17:04,773
- Are they up there now?
- Let's see.

273
00:17:04,774 --> 00:17:06,526
Dimitra?

274
00:17:09,237 --> 00:17:11,113
Dimitra?

275
00:17:11,114 --> 00:17:13,031
[door opens]

276
00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:14,743
[door closes]

277
00:17:19,664 --> 00:17:21,540
- I thought you guys
were finished.

278
00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:23,835
- Uh, no. I-I called,
I called back.

279
00:17:32,218 --> 00:17:33,635
Is my husband there?

280
00:17:33,636 --> 00:17:37,140
- Uh, I don't think so.
Let me check upstairs.

281
00:17:38,641 --> 00:17:40,143
- Okay.

282
00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:49,444
- You think
they're fooling around?

283
00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:52,614
[exhales]

284
00:17:54,949 --> 00:17:58,869
- I am amorous of thy body,
John the Baptist.

285
00:17:58,870 --> 00:18:01,121
Thy body is white,

286
00:18:01,122 --> 00:18:03,957
like the snows that lie
on the mountains of Judea

287
00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:06,794
and come down into the valleys.

288
00:18:06,795 --> 00:18:10,798
There is nothing in the world
so white as thy body.

289
00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:12,508
[intriguing score]

290
00:18:12,509 --> 00:18:16,262
Suffer me
to touch thy body.

291
00:18:18,598 --> 00:18:21,975
- Back, daughter of Babylon.

292
00:18:21,976 --> 00:18:25,103
By woman
came evil into the world.

293
00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:27,481
Speak not to me.

294
00:18:27,482 --> 00:18:29,650
I will not
listen to thee.

295
00:18:29,651 --> 00:18:32,403
I listen but to the
voice of the Lord God.

296
00:18:34,989 --> 00:18:37,825
- It's great to
get back to the text.

297
00:18:37,826 --> 00:18:40,035
- The music makes
a big difference.

298
00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:43,373
- But the words.
The words of Oscar Wilde.

299
00:18:48,044 --> 00:18:51,672
Thy body is white
like lilies in a valley.

300
00:18:51,673 --> 00:18:53,674
Thy body is white

301
00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:56,261
like snows
on the mountains of Judea.

302
00:18:58,346 --> 00:19:01,474
Suffer me
to touch thy body.

303
00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:07,522
It's so beautiful.

304
00:19:13,570 --> 00:19:16,239
[rope creaking]

305
00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:21,327
- Beautiful. Beautiful.

306
00:19:22,370 --> 00:19:23,913
[creaking continues]

307
00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:32,045
Just let the peel fall away.
Just let it fall away like that.

308
00:19:32,046 --> 00:19:35,048
Perfect.
Okay, break it up.

309
00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:37,802
And, now,
I want you to taste one.

310
00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:41,013
I want you to really taste it.

311
00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:44,141
Feel how heightened it is
with your eyesight gone.

312
00:19:44,142 --> 00:19:47,186
Feel how, how powerful
the flavor is.

313
00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:50,689
Take away one sense,

314
00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:52,774
all the others
become heightened.

315
00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:56,445
More real.
More intense.

316
00:19:56,446 --> 00:19:58,071
Remember that.

317
00:19:58,072 --> 00:20:00,490
That's your responsibility
as an artist.

318
00:20:00,491 --> 00:20:01,826
[rope creaking]

319
00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:10,543
[crow cawing]

320
00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:43,241
- Salome is overwhelmed
by her wakening desire.

321
00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:45,577
But what is she
being wakened from?

322
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:48,830
What's at the root
of her crazed enchantment?

323
00:20:48,831 --> 00:20:52,459
- Crazed enchantment.
That's my new favorite line.

324
00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,586
- What?

325
00:20:54,587 --> 00:20:58,507
Thanks. What do you think
it means, Lizzie?

326
00:20:58,508 --> 00:21:02,010
- I don't know. I don't know
where you came up with that.

327
00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:03,595
- You don't?
- No.

328
00:21:03,596 --> 00:21:06,348
- When do you find out.
- In a day or two.

329
00:21:06,349 --> 00:21:07,849
I mean, it's a small thing.

330
00:21:07,850 --> 00:21:10,644
- It's not a small thing, Mom.
You're directing a show.

331
00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:12,145
- Yeah, I'm remounting it, baby.

332
00:21:12,146 --> 00:21:14,940
[phone ringing]

333
00:21:14,941 --> 00:21:18,193
- Hello? Yeah, did you hear
what she said?

334
00:21:18,194 --> 00:21:20,028
- Paul: It'd be great if they,
if they publish it.

335
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:22,948
- Did you read the new draft?
- Not, no, not the whole thing.

336
00:21:22,949 --> 00:21:25,033
But I loved that line
about crazed enchantment.

337
00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:27,452
[dog barking in distance]

338
00:21:27,453 --> 00:21:29,871
- That's the part
I just rewrote.

339
00:21:29,872 --> 00:21:31,164
That's the one
I just read to you.

340
00:21:31,165 --> 00:21:33,583
- Yeah. No. No, no. Like, no.
The line from the play.

341
00:21:33,584 --> 00:21:36,086
- The one, um... [sucks teeth]
[tense score]

342
00:21:36,087 --> 00:21:39,465
that Salome's father says
how he-he loves her too much.

343
00:21:41,634 --> 00:21:43,594
- Jeanine (VO):
You're always looking at her.

344
00:21:45,346 --> 00:21:47,389
You look at her too much.

345
00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:49,850
- Well, that's not my essay.
I didn't write that.

346
00:21:49,851 --> 00:21:51,935
- Yeah, but...
Yeah, but it's in the play.

347
00:21:51,936 --> 00:21:54,896
I mean, you want me to read--
I read the whole thing.

348
00:21:54,897 --> 00:21:58,150
- It's in Oscar Wilde's play.
- Yeah.

349
00:21:58,151 --> 00:22:00,193
- It is dangerous
to look at people

350
00:22:00,194 --> 00:22:02,529
in such a fashion.

351
00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:04,531
Something terrible may happen.

352
00:22:04,532 --> 00:22:06,033
- Have you...

353
00:22:06,034 --> 00:22:09,037
mentioned anything to Lizzie
about this being a separation?

354
00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:12,706
- Lizzie:
No, I guess I'm just scared.

355
00:22:12,707 --> 00:22:14,166
- I, I just...

356
00:22:14,167 --> 00:22:16,334
I told her that it's--
it's different this time.

357
00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:18,378
- Different in what way?
- Just you going off

358
00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:19,881
to do the show, and...

359
00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:23,508
How we're just gonna
see how it feels

360
00:22:23,509 --> 00:22:25,260
to be apart
for this long.

361
00:22:25,261 --> 00:22:26,636
- It--

362
00:22:26,637 --> 00:22:29,431
Don't you think that's a talk
that we should've had together?

363
00:22:29,432 --> 00:22:32,350
- We've had that conversation
- No, the three of us?

364
00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,979
- Yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow.

365
00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:38,065
- I think you need to
insist on this, Jeanine.

366
00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:39,775
The-they they have to

367
00:22:39,776 --> 00:22:43,195
put your director's notes
in the program.

368
00:22:43,196 --> 00:22:44,905
I mean, so many ideas
from the show

369
00:22:44,906 --> 00:22:47,866
were inspired by you.
Right?

370
00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:50,495
Crazed enchantment.
All that.

371
00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:54,039
[dog barking in distance]

372
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,416
[piano playing]

373
00:22:56,417 --> 00:23:03,299
Thy hair is like
a cluster of grapes

374
00:23:06,594 --> 00:23:10,806
like the cluster
of black grapes

375
00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:14,309
that hang
from the vines of Edom

376
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:15,811
- Let's pause real quick.

377
00:23:15,812 --> 00:23:18,980
So, as Salome
is going on in detail

378
00:23:18,981 --> 00:23:22,234
about how she wants to touch
John the Baptist's body

379
00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:24,903
and, and his hair and his lips,
there is

380
00:23:24,904 --> 00:23:27,739
an entirely separate dynamic
that's happening right here.

381
00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:31,827
Uh, could you sing
the second line about how--

382
00:23:31,828 --> 00:23:34,246
how beautiful Salome is?

383
00:23:34,247 --> 00:23:36,332
- Yep.
- At rehearsal six.

384
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,210
[piano playing]

385
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:49,053
How beautiful is the
Princess Salome this evening

386
00:23:53,808 --> 00:23:56,685
- Thank you. It's all this pain
and-and-and yearning.

387
00:23:56,686 --> 00:24:00,188
It's what--
It's what leads you

388
00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:01,691
to eventually...

389
00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:05,443
- ...kill yourself, right?
- Yep.

390
00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,696
- Because you can't have her.

391
00:24:07,697 --> 00:24:11,616
Those are the same exact ways
she can't have John the Baptist.

392
00:24:11,617 --> 00:24:14,286
And you have this secret crush
on Narraboth.

393
00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:16,997
And he pays no attention to you.
He doesn't--

394
00:24:16,998 --> 00:24:18,790
You, you don't exist.
It's...

395
00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:21,251
It's her,
and-and-and to hear...

396
00:24:21,252 --> 00:24:25,213
For somebody to hear
a sound like that...

397
00:24:25,214 --> 00:24:27,048
Can you sing it again, please?

398
00:24:27,049 --> 00:24:35,182
How beautiful is the
Princess Salome this evening

399
00:24:35,183 --> 00:24:39,227
To hear a sound like that and,
and know that he...

400
00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:43,899
he's capable of this passion,
but it's not directed at you.

401
00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,525
It's not for you,
it's for her.

402
00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:47,694
- Mm-hm.
- It's maddening.

403
00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:50,031
It's just this
crazy mess of-of-of...

404
00:24:52,033 --> 00:24:55,535
This crazy mess of feeling.
Right?

405
00:24:55,536 --> 00:24:57,537
And so as--
while Salome is singing

406
00:24:57,538 --> 00:25:00,290
about how wonderful it would be
to, to, to touch

407
00:25:00,291 --> 00:25:03,210
just touch
John the Baptist's hair,

408
00:25:03,211 --> 00:25:05,837
it-it ignites something in you.

409
00:25:05,838 --> 00:25:08,716
It inspires you
to touch Narraboth's hair.

410
00:25:11,052 --> 00:25:14,388
Okay. Okay, let's, uh,
let's go back to one-oh-one.

411
00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:21,186
[piano playing]

412
00:25:21,187 --> 00:25:26,816
It is thy hair
that I am enamored

413
00:25:26,817 --> 00:25:31,571
Jokanaan

414
00:25:31,572 --> 00:25:37,954
Thy hair is like a
cluster of grapes

415
00:25:41,582 --> 00:25:49,089
like the cluster
of black grapes

416
00:25:49,090 --> 00:25:50,799
that hang from
the vines of Edom.

417
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,843
[singing, piano stop]

418
00:25:53,719 --> 00:25:55,804
- We really like the piece.
We just don't think it serves

419
00:25:55,805 --> 00:25:58,598
the purpose, the function
of a director's statement.

420
00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,767
- The function? I'm sorry...

421
00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:03,228
So, you're gonna use
Charles's notes from before?

422
00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:06,273
- Yeah, it's still pertinent.
- Okay, seriously?

423
00:26:06,274 --> 00:26:08,817
Nancy, Charles, don't you think
he would want me to have

424
00:26:08,818 --> 00:26:10,652
my director's notes published?

425
00:26:10,653 --> 00:26:13,281
He's the one who invited me
to remount this.

426
00:26:14,699 --> 00:26:16,658
- It's Beatrice's decision.

427
00:26:16,659 --> 00:26:18,577
- Oh, so, it's what
his wife wants.

428
00:26:19,745 --> 00:26:24,165
So, as part of her final wishes
for her husband.

429
00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:26,459
- Yes, like I said,
what Beatrice wants.

430
00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:28,128
Look, even though
we're not gonna publish

431
00:26:28,129 --> 00:26:30,630
in the program officially
as a director's statement

432
00:26:30,631 --> 00:26:32,299
I thought it might
have other outlets.

433
00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:34,926
- Like what?
- Like sharing in interviews.

434
00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:39,347
I've already had a request.
This, um, podcast...

435
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:41,141
- Okay, sure.

436
00:26:41,142 --> 00:26:44,144
- I also had this idea that you
might wanna create a journal

437
00:26:44,145 --> 00:26:46,396
that we could post on the site
like a, like a diary

438
00:26:46,397 --> 00:26:47,814
of what it means to you
to be working on this

439
00:26:47,815 --> 00:26:50,191
so many years later.
You can shoot it on your phone.

440
00:26:50,192 --> 00:26:52,736
We can help you edit it.
You can even...

441
00:26:52,737 --> 00:26:55,447
make it more personal
if that's what you want.

442
00:26:55,448 --> 00:26:58,408
- More personal than what?
- Than what you've written here.

443
00:26:58,409 --> 00:27:00,368
- You think this is personal?

444
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:01,829
- Isn't it?

445
00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:07,834
One more thing.

446
00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:10,128
We were a little concerned about
what you said the other day

447
00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:12,922
at the presentation,
wanting to make changes

448
00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:14,382
to the original production.

449
00:27:14,383 --> 00:27:16,301
- As I said, small changes.

450
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:19,179
- Small, but meaningful.

451
00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:21,015
- That's right.

452
00:27:24,143 --> 00:27:25,561
[suspenseful score]

453
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,482
[deep breath, sigh]

454
00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:35,613
- I've been asked
to make this personal.

455
00:27:36,947 --> 00:27:38,198
So I will.

456
00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:41,618
- That's the whole point.
That he never looks at me.

457
00:27:41,619 --> 00:27:43,203
- This is for you, Charles.

458
00:27:43,204 --> 00:27:45,663
- That's what Salome
is begging him to do

459
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:46,998
that he never sees me.

460
00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:48,750
- The person
who wanted me here.

461
00:27:48,751 --> 00:27:51,002
- Right, 'cause if he did,
then he would love her.

462
00:27:51,003 --> 00:27:53,922
- Exactly. But do you ever
get the sense that he would?

463
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:55,006
- Now I'm back.

464
00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:56,549
[discussion continues quietly]

465
00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,094
Without you.

466
00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:01,012
Alone.

467
00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:04,516
Alone to watch the understudies
for Salome and John the Baptist

468
00:28:04,517 --> 00:28:06,560
discuss roles
they may never get to play.

469
00:28:08,896 --> 00:28:11,272
Alone to watch
an empty orchestra pit

470
00:28:11,273 --> 00:28:14,275
from your favorite place
in the house.

471
00:28:14,276 --> 00:28:16,320
A bridge between
two different worlds.

472
00:28:22,243 --> 00:28:24,911
Alone to watch someone
try out a swing

473
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:26,872
that came from somewhere
in my childhood.

474
00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:38,007
Later that night I watch a clip
from the production

475
00:28:38,008 --> 00:28:41,428
you directed
so many years ago.

476
00:28:41,429 --> 00:28:42,929
How perfectly her white dress

477
00:28:42,930 --> 00:28:45,348
flowed into
the unfurling screen.

478
00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:48,060
Like they were both one piece
of magical fabric.

479
00:28:50,855 --> 00:28:53,481
How perfectly
the shadow of my father

480
00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:56,401
was discovered
on the projected home movie

481
00:28:56,402 --> 00:28:57,862
of the girl.

482
00:29:06,954 --> 00:29:10,665
You asked me about
so many details, Charles.

483
00:29:10,666 --> 00:29:12,459
And I willingly
provided them

484
00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:14,753
because you made me feel
so loved.

485
00:29:17,923 --> 00:29:20,634
A girl walking blindfolded
through the forest.

486
00:29:22,595 --> 00:29:25,180
And in the shadow
of her father,

487
00:29:25,181 --> 00:29:27,265
my father,

488
00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:31,478
who you directed
with such meticulous detail

489
00:29:31,479 --> 00:29:32,938
to reach for her.

490
00:29:36,984 --> 00:29:39,444
- Harold: Keep following that.

491
00:29:39,445 --> 00:29:41,613
[dramatic boom, rumbling]

492
00:29:41,614 --> 00:29:44,282
There's a bog coming up
in a little bit.

493
00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:46,409
When I say big step,
you take a big step.

494
00:29:46,410 --> 00:29:49,496
No hesitation.
Keep coming. Big step.

495
00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:51,539
Big step.
There you go.

496
00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:53,541
- HAROLD: The moon
has a strange look tonight.

497
00:29:53,542 --> 00:29:56,377
- Jeanine: The moon
has a strange look tonight.

498
00:29:56,378 --> 00:29:57,962
She is like a madwoman.

499
00:29:57,963 --> 00:30:00,548
- She's like a madwoman.
- Seeking everywhere.

500
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:01,966
- Seeking.

501
00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:04,719
- My father's words to me,
Charles.

502
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,097
From the play
that haunted you both.

503
00:30:08,432 --> 00:30:12,185
- At first I wanted to try
making the head as a sculpture

504
00:30:12,186 --> 00:30:14,270
as opposed to the more
traditional method

505
00:30:14,271 --> 00:30:17,774
which would just be to make
a cast of the singer's head.

506
00:30:17,775 --> 00:30:20,026
I studied sculpture
in art school

507
00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:24,531
and I really enjoy
this kind of slower method.

508
00:30:24,532 --> 00:30:26,992
Uh, so to start...

509
00:30:30,371 --> 00:30:31,913
I asked Johan to send me

510
00:30:31,914 --> 00:30:33,706
a few photos from Germany
of his face

511
00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:37,335
just to gimme an idea
of the shape of his features.

512
00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:40,255
And I got this started
and, um...

513
00:30:40,256 --> 00:30:41,923
I think it's pretty good.

514
00:30:41,924 --> 00:30:45,343
So, the next step will be to
have Johan come into the studio

515
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:49,472
and I'll work on getting
the finer details of his face.

516
00:30:49,473 --> 00:30:51,724
[birds cooing]

517
00:30:51,725 --> 00:30:53,935
- This is really strange.

518
00:30:53,936 --> 00:30:57,564
You know, usually,
they make a cast.

519
00:30:57,565 --> 00:30:59,107
- Yeah, I know.

520
00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:01,526
Uh, but the guy who'd normally
be doing that, my boss,

521
00:31:01,527 --> 00:31:03,861
he's sick.

522
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:07,031
But I find that this is
less invasive for you.

523
00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:08,950
Sometimes singers get
a little freaked out

524
00:31:08,951 --> 00:31:10,535
when there's all this stuff
on their head.

525
00:31:10,536 --> 00:31:13,955
- Hm. So, you are going
old school.

526
00:31:13,956 --> 00:31:15,373
[music plays quietly]

527
00:31:15,374 --> 00:31:19,168
- I mean, I can make a cast.
I know how to, but...

528
00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:22,088
Definitely,
this sculpture should work.

529
00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:23,923
And, uh, these pictures
that you sent me,

530
00:31:23,924 --> 00:31:26,593
these were really helpful.
Kind of gave me a head start.

531
00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:29,137
[Johan laughs]

532
00:31:29,138 --> 00:31:31,389
- A head start on my head.

533
00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:32,850
[laughs]

534
00:31:34,143 --> 00:31:35,603
- Exactly.

535
00:31:38,314 --> 00:31:41,858
- You're so serious suddenly.

536
00:31:41,859 --> 00:31:45,362
What has Ambur told you
about me?

537
00:31:47,114 --> 00:31:49,490
- Why do you think she'd
tell me anything about you?

538
00:31:49,491 --> 00:31:52,161
- Mm, I've heard
you two know each other.

539
00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:58,333
- Yeah, we were,
we were friends a while ago.

540
00:31:58,334 --> 00:31:59,751
- Here?

541
00:31:59,752 --> 00:32:02,920
- Yep.
Before she went off.

542
00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:05,341
[Johan speaks German]

543
00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:09,677
- "And conquered the world."

544
00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:11,471
- Yeah, right.

545
00:32:11,472 --> 00:32:13,848
Yeah, that's Ambur.
Conquer the world.

546
00:32:13,849 --> 00:32:17,268
- I think she has
a pretty high opinion

547
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:19,479
of herself, yes?

548
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,149
- Well, she's super-confident.
Yeah, she always has been.

549
00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:24,693
- Hm.

550
00:32:26,028 --> 00:32:28,363
- She did tell me
about the last production

551
00:32:28,364 --> 00:32:29,572
that you did in Europe.

552
00:32:29,573 --> 00:32:31,199
- Stuttgart, hm?

553
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,159
- Sounds like it was
pretty intense.

554
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,663
- Did she go into details?

555
00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:41,459
- Just that it was a
different interpretation.

556
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,003
- It was very physical.

557
00:32:44,004 --> 00:32:46,547
Very naked.

558
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:50,843
She probably told you
that I crossed some lines.

559
00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:54,764
- Well, she, she--
- I know that's what she thinks,

560
00:32:54,765 --> 00:32:57,392
but I was just
following direction.

561
00:32:57,393 --> 00:32:58,852
Doing my job.

562
00:33:06,527 --> 00:33:07,528
- Oh.

563
00:33:08,654 --> 00:33:10,029
Oh, I love this part.

564
00:33:10,030 --> 00:33:11,906
[music gets louder]

565
00:33:11,907 --> 00:33:13,742
- Hm.
- When I first heard this--

566
00:33:28,132 --> 00:33:30,049
[music fades out]

567
00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:31,426
- Hi.
- Hey.

568
00:33:31,427 --> 00:33:33,678
- Jeanine.
- Charlie. Nice to meet you.

569
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,346
- Nice to meet you.
- I'll leave you two alone.

570
00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,515
- Thanks, Nancy.
- Thank you.

571
00:33:37,516 --> 00:33:38,850
- Thank you for doing this.

572
00:33:38,851 --> 00:33:40,685
I've really been looking forward
to speaking with you.

573
00:33:40,686 --> 00:33:43,521
- Well, I hear very good things
about your podcast.

574
00:33:43,522 --> 00:33:45,231
- Oh, yeah, yeah.

575
00:33:45,232 --> 00:33:47,066
Singers like to post
their interviews,

576
00:33:47,067 --> 00:33:49,152
helps the fans
get to know them.

577
00:33:49,153 --> 00:33:52,196
- Sure, sure.
- To be honest, I, uh...

578
00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:53,698
don't usually
speak with directors.

579
00:33:53,699 --> 00:33:56,951
- Oh, well,
that's understandable. Right?

580
00:33:56,952 --> 00:33:59,370
- [laughs] Right.

581
00:33:59,371 --> 00:34:01,456
Can I first grab you
a cup of tea?

582
00:34:01,457 --> 00:34:04,041
- Oh, uh...
No, thank you.

583
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:05,793
I'm okay. I'm good.

584
00:34:05,794 --> 00:34:07,628
- Glass of water?

585
00:34:07,629 --> 00:34:09,339
- Yes. Sure.

586
00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:15,303
- Nice setup.
- Thanks, yeah.

587
00:34:15,304 --> 00:34:18,264
I'll just be a jiff. It might
be a little dirty, actually.

588
00:34:18,265 --> 00:34:21,058
- Ah, thanks. You don't have
to--Mm, okay.

589
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,604
[glass squeaking]

590
00:34:25,731 --> 00:34:27,940
- You're a...
[chuckles]

591
00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:31,027
You're a little bit
overdressed for this.

592
00:34:31,028 --> 00:34:33,738
- I-I didn't know,
I didn't know what to expect

593
00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:35,448
or what you
needed from me, so...

594
00:34:35,449 --> 00:34:39,243
- Oh, did you think
we'd have cameras?

595
00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:42,622
- I don't know.
- Hoping to get filmed?

596
00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:44,082
[both laugh lightly]

597
00:34:45,626 --> 00:34:49,587
I asked for this interview
because, um...

598
00:34:49,588 --> 00:34:52,089
I'm a little bit obsessed
with this production.

599
00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,926
- Oh.
- I find it so interesting

600
00:34:54,927 --> 00:34:56,677
that you've come back
to remount it.

601
00:34:56,678 --> 00:34:59,597
I mean, you must have
been so young back then.

602
00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:03,226
- Well, I'm-I'm
probably older than I look.

603
00:35:03,227 --> 00:35:06,062
- Yeah.
Okay, but also...

604
00:35:06,063 --> 00:35:08,189
uh...

605
00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:11,609
you don't direct opera.
I mean, I looked you up, uh...

606
00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:14,529
you do regional theatre, right?
A lot of trade shows?

607
00:35:14,530 --> 00:35:17,114
- Should we start?
I just don't wanna lose...

608
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,827
any time with you
'cuz things are a little hectic.

609
00:35:20,828 --> 00:35:23,329
- Oh, uh, we've already started.
[chuckles]

610
00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:24,456
- Oh.

611
00:35:26,208 --> 00:35:27,292
- We're rolling.

612
00:35:28,961 --> 00:35:31,672
- Okay, great.
- Oh!

613
00:35:33,632 --> 00:35:36,510
Sorry. Almost forgot.

614
00:35:38,554 --> 00:35:41,389
I brought you...
some cookies.

615
00:35:41,390 --> 00:35:42,432
[plate clatters]
[Charlie laughs]

616
00:35:43,809 --> 00:35:46,602
Just careful
not to chomp on 'em.

617
00:35:46,603 --> 00:35:49,522
- Okay.
Thank you so much.

618
00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:51,108
- No crunching while we roll.

619
00:35:53,026 --> 00:35:54,735
- Good?
- Yeah.

620
00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:56,529
- All right.

621
00:35:56,530 --> 00:35:59,740
- It sounds like this
totally insane production.

622
00:35:59,741 --> 00:36:03,536
So, John the Baptist
is all over Salome,

623
00:36:03,537 --> 00:36:05,496
like, the entire time.

624
00:36:05,497 --> 00:36:08,833
Like he's some kind of
sex-starved monster

625
00:36:08,834 --> 00:36:10,501
or cult leader
or something.

626
00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:12,420
And the words that are
coming out of his mouth

627
00:36:12,421 --> 00:36:14,797
have nothing to do
with the way he's behaving,

628
00:36:14,798 --> 00:36:16,591
which is, basically,

629
00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:19,510
groping her naked body
as she's going on and on

630
00:36:19,511 --> 00:36:24,056
about how beautiful his hair
and his skin and his lips are.

631
00:36:24,057 --> 00:36:26,852
[gentle classical piano
plays quietly]

632
00:36:27,227 --> 00:36:28,812
What?

633
00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:35,319
- You didn't know that?

634
00:36:36,904 --> 00:36:38,362
About the production.

635
00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:41,282
- No. No, 'cause it was
in Germany, right?

636
00:36:41,283 --> 00:36:43,117
- Mm.
- Stuttgart.

637
00:36:43,118 --> 00:36:44,827
So, had nothing to do
with our show.

638
00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:47,079
- Yeah, but don't you
stay in touch?

639
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,707
- With Ambur?
- Mm-hm.

640
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,209
- No, of course not.

641
00:36:52,753 --> 00:36:54,837
[Rachel scoffs]

642
00:36:54,838 --> 00:36:56,340
- So, you don't follow her.

643
00:36:57,382 --> 00:36:59,216
- No.

644
00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:01,595
We broke up
a long time ago.

645
00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:06,308
- When she went off
and conquered the world.

646
00:37:09,686 --> 00:37:11,730
- That is so weird
that you would say that.

647
00:37:13,273 --> 00:37:15,149
But that's the
exact same expression

648
00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:18,653
that Johann used
except he said it in German

649
00:37:18,654 --> 00:37:21,155
and then he had to
translate it back to me.

650
00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:24,868
and he pronounced it
concord the world

651
00:37:38,924 --> 00:37:40,467
Rachel...

652
00:37:41,468 --> 00:37:43,136
[chair rattling on floor]

653
00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:50,227
Ambur got very lucky.

654
00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:58,901
There is nothing,
like, nothing...

655
00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:02,114
that I would love more
than to see you on that stage.

656
00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:07,827
It'll happen.

657
00:38:07,828 --> 00:38:09,287
Just watch.

658
00:38:12,624 --> 00:38:14,334
[both mouth "Love you."]

659
00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:20,715
- That's tough.

660
00:38:20,716 --> 00:38:22,800
Covering a role
can be frustrating.

661
00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:25,344
- And-and part of her
is grateful for the work.

662
00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:27,722
And, I mean,
now she knows the role.

663
00:38:27,723 --> 00:38:29,765
- It's in her repertoire.
- Right.

664
00:38:29,766 --> 00:38:32,059
- And, who knows,
if Rachel's lucky,

665
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,644
she might even get to sing it.

666
00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:35,396
- Like, if something
happens to me.

667
00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:38,524
- Yeah, like, if I kill you.
- [scoffs] Nice.

668
00:38:38,525 --> 00:38:40,192
- I mean, it would be
her dream come true.

669
00:38:40,193 --> 00:38:42,319
- That you murdered me?

670
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,156
- That she would get a chance.

671
00:38:45,157 --> 00:38:47,324
- Well, I'm here
to do six performances,

672
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:50,495
remain healthy...
and not die.

673
00:38:51,747 --> 00:38:53,331
- Of course.

674
00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,462
- You're not actually asking me
to give up a performance?

675
00:38:59,463 --> 00:39:00,922
[Johan singing in German
in distance]

676
00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:07,596
[approaching footsteps]

677
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:14,268
[wooden item
clatters to floor]

678
00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,021
Even if I wanted to...

679
00:39:17,731 --> 00:39:19,899
as a favor,
it's not so simple.

680
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,233
I'd have to get
a doctor's note--

681
00:39:21,234 --> 00:39:22,860
- Of course.

682
00:39:22,861 --> 00:39:25,946
- And this is how
I make my living, Clea.

683
00:39:25,947 --> 00:39:29,200
I don't sing,
I don't get paid.

684
00:39:29,201 --> 00:39:30,826
The understudy would get my fee.

685
00:39:30,827 --> 00:39:33,245
- Ambur, of course.

686
00:39:33,246 --> 00:39:34,956
[Ambur laughs]

687
00:39:37,334 --> 00:39:39,919
- Jeanine, you hate that house.

688
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,462
And everything
that happened to you there,

689
00:39:41,463 --> 00:39:43,464
you cringe every time
you set foot in the place.

690
00:39:43,465 --> 00:39:46,217
But that's not
how Lizzie feels.

691
00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:48,427
- We're not
talking about Lizzie.

692
00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:50,096
- I know, we're talking about
your imagination.

693
00:39:50,097 --> 00:39:52,056
- What happened in that house
was not my imagination.

694
00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:54,225
- I know, I know. But...

695
00:39:54,226 --> 00:39:56,853
But what you think is happening
with me and Dimitra is.

696
00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:00,941
- So, you're not,
you're not sleeping with her?

697
00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:07,446
- Not in the house, no.

698
00:40:07,447 --> 00:40:10,658
- Oh, because,
'cause you have boundaries.

699
00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:13,744
- We talked about this.
I-I...

700
00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:15,704
I mean, we're supposed to be
honest with one another.

701
00:40:15,705 --> 00:40:17,998
- Yeah, okay, yeah, not sleep
with each other's friends.

702
00:40:17,999 --> 00:40:19,542
- Well, she's not a friend.
She's a nurse.

703
00:40:19,543 --> 00:40:21,836
- She's my mother's caregiver
and we pay her.

704
00:40:21,837 --> 00:40:24,506
- I know, but this thing with me
and her can end at any time.

705
00:40:26,133 --> 00:40:27,716
And I love you.

706
00:40:27,717 --> 00:40:29,261
And you know that.

707
00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:33,473
We're supposed to be exploring.

708
00:40:36,143 --> 00:40:39,229
Isn't that what you're doing?
Exploring?

709
00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:43,482
We agreed on this.
Uh, uh...

710
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,818
- What you said before
about my mother's house

711
00:40:45,819 --> 00:40:49,905
and all the things that
he did to me... there...

712
00:40:49,906 --> 00:40:52,032
Do--Uh...

713
00:40:52,033 --> 00:40:55,202
What does that have to do
with you and Dimitra?

714
00:40:55,203 --> 00:40:58,038
- No, I wasn't
talking about Dimitra.

715
00:40:58,039 --> 00:40:59,290
I was talking about Lizzie.

716
00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:00,958
- Okay, but we're talking
about Dimitra now.

717
00:41:00,959 --> 00:41:03,043
- Well, she's the person
who takes care of your mother.

718
00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:04,504
- Uh-huh?

719
00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:09,885
[Jeanine sighs]

720
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,013
- I told you...

721
00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:16,932
that this might not be
the best idea

722
00:41:16,933 --> 00:41:20,436
to-to-to be doing this
right now.

723
00:41:20,437 --> 00:41:22,688
You can't go back
into that world,

724
00:41:22,689 --> 00:41:25,691
the opera and your,
your history with Charles

725
00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:29,320
and expect it to
not have effect on you.

726
00:41:29,321 --> 00:41:31,238
And the stuff
with your mom

727
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,242
and your dad dying like that
just last year.

728
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:37,161
[disquieting score]

729
00:41:37,162 --> 00:41:38,622
- The stuff with my mom...

730
00:41:39,873 --> 00:41:41,291
Which part?

731
00:41:42,584 --> 00:41:44,376
- Harold: Do you
love your mother, Jeanine?

732
00:41:44,377 --> 00:41:46,087
Isn't she special?

733
00:41:47,464 --> 00:41:50,550
This is my love letter to you,
Margot, my beautiful wife,

734
00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:55,679
who's given me
our beautiful angel daughter.

735
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:56,932
[rope creaking]

736
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,893
So perfect, so intelligent.

737
00:42:00,894 --> 00:42:02,354
So talented.

738
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,902
- Hey, do we have a machete?

739
00:42:10,195 --> 00:42:11,946
- Yeah. Uh, for what?

740
00:42:11,947 --> 00:42:14,448
- For Salome's mother to use.

741
00:42:14,449 --> 00:42:16,409
- To do what?
- To cut off the head.

742
00:42:17,953 --> 00:42:21,622
- Uh, okay, isn't the guard
going to do that with,

743
00:42:21,623 --> 00:42:23,249
um, with the axe?

744
00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:25,459
- Right, well, I want him
to go first with the axe

745
00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:27,795
and then have her mother
follow with the machete.

746
00:42:27,796 --> 00:42:30,464
- So, she beheads
John the Baptist.

747
00:42:30,465 --> 00:42:32,633
- No, that's not clear.
We nev--we never know.

748
00:42:32,634 --> 00:42:34,927
I just had this idea that
she's going to be presenting

749
00:42:34,928 --> 00:42:37,263
John the Baptist's head
to her daughter.

750
00:42:37,264 --> 00:42:39,390
- Okay, and she'll do that
on the platter.

751
00:42:39,391 --> 00:42:42,726
- Um... No.

752
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:44,436
I think...

753
00:42:44,437 --> 00:42:47,940
Not-not on a platter.
I think in a bowl.

754
00:42:47,941 --> 00:42:49,566
Right? I think in a--

755
00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:52,569
in a clear plastic bowl
that's that size.

756
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:55,406
And you know what?
I also just want...

757
00:42:55,407 --> 00:42:57,574
I want real tangerines
'cause I want to use them.

758
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,743
- Mm-hm.
- I want them to...

759
00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:01,245
I want there to be action.

760
00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:02,621
- Okay, yeah, so

761
00:43:02,622 --> 00:43:04,540
we're gonna have
a clear plastic bowl

762
00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:06,250
with tangerines in it
and the head in there.

763
00:43:06,251 --> 00:43:07,918
- No, no, the tangerines
are gonna--

764
00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:10,462
So, we're gonna establish
the clear plastic-plastic bowl

765
00:43:10,463 --> 00:43:12,298
(sputters) on the set,

766
00:43:12,299 --> 00:43:14,800
and then we're gonna
use it later for the head.

767
00:43:14,801 --> 00:43:16,885
- Got it.
Okay, uh, yeah, I can...

768
00:43:16,886 --> 00:43:19,305
find a machete
and a bowl

769
00:43:19,306 --> 00:43:21,098
and we'll pick up
some tangerines.

770
00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:23,684
- Great. And I need that all
by tomorrow rehearsal.

771
00:43:23,685 --> 00:43:25,269
- I'll have something.
- Thank you.

772
00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:28,356
- Great. Um, hey,
what do you think of this?

773
00:43:29,733 --> 00:43:31,275
- Is that a cast?
- [score fades out]

774
00:43:31,276 --> 00:43:33,444
- No, I sculpted it.

775
00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:35,196
- Why?

776
00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,282
- I just, I wasn't sure

777
00:43:38,283 --> 00:43:39,826
that we needed
to do it that way.

778
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,829
- You might wanna rethink this

779
00:43:43,830 --> 00:43:46,248
because, um...
[sucks teeth]

780
00:43:46,249 --> 00:43:48,792
it's just,
if we're recording this,

781
00:43:48,793 --> 00:43:51,046
this isn't gonna work
because of the closeup.

782
00:43:52,172 --> 00:43:53,673
[pedestal creaks]

783
00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:57,009
- Right.

784
00:43:57,010 --> 00:44:01,555
So, can you just look at it
and kind of describe

785
00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:03,307
what your concerns are
with it?

786
00:44:03,308 --> 00:44:05,893
- Well, I think this is...

787
00:44:05,894 --> 00:44:09,897
You've done really good work,
but it-it's not feeling right.

788
00:44:09,898 --> 00:44:11,190
- Okay. And why is that?

789
00:44:11,191 --> 00:44:13,776
- Because it's, um,
well, it's a sculpture

790
00:44:13,777 --> 00:44:16,236
and a sculpture
changes over time.

791
00:44:16,237 --> 00:44:17,488
It evolves
as you're working on it.

792
00:44:17,489 --> 00:44:20,199
But a cast...
is-is like a photo.

793
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,201
It's a snapshot
of somebody's face

794
00:44:22,202 --> 00:44:25,496
while it's being set in mold,
like a death mask.

795
00:44:25,497 --> 00:44:27,331
- Okay, so, then...

796
00:44:27,332 --> 00:44:30,417
should I give him
any kind of direction

797
00:44:30,418 --> 00:44:33,087
as I'm,
as I'm making the mask?

798
00:44:33,088 --> 00:44:34,671
- About what?

799
00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:37,883
- Like his expression as I'm
putting this stuff on his face.

800
00:44:37,884 --> 00:44:39,469
- That's a good question.
Um...

801
00:44:42,222 --> 00:44:43,681
He's at peace
with the idea.

802
00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:46,725
- Of having
his head chopped off?

803
00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:49,062
- Of knowing that he
needs to be sacrificed.

804
00:44:51,231 --> 00:44:53,565
- Okay, I gotta go. You good?
- Yeah. Thank you.

805
00:44:53,566 --> 00:44:55,193
- Thank you.

806
00:44:57,445 --> 00:45:01,740
Uh, I think it would make sense
if-if, Ambur, you...

807
00:45:01,741 --> 00:45:04,451
scrambled around
trying to pick these up.

808
00:45:04,452 --> 00:45:06,245
- I'd rather stay here
and watch.

809
00:45:06,246 --> 00:45:08,122
- Uh, Jeanine, you can't
just have tangerines

810
00:45:08,123 --> 00:45:09,748
rolling into
the orchestra pit.

811
00:45:09,749 --> 00:45:11,542
- Okay.
- I'm sorry.

812
00:45:11,543 --> 00:45:13,836
I don't understand
what my wife is doing.

813
00:45:13,837 --> 00:45:15,754
Who's chopping the head off?

814
00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:17,297
- Well, that's not clear.
Maybe both of you.

815
00:45:17,298 --> 00:45:19,049
- But... (sputters)

816
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:22,052
It doesn't take two people
to chop a head off.

817
00:45:22,053 --> 00:45:24,555
Normally there's an axe,
now there's a machete.

818
00:45:24,556 --> 00:45:27,224
They've just sent down a guard
who's been told to do that.

819
00:45:27,225 --> 00:45:28,976
- And now the both of you

820
00:45:28,977 --> 00:45:31,645
have to take full responsibility
for what you're doing.

821
00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:34,064
- I'm sorry,
I don't understand.

822
00:45:34,065 --> 00:45:37,401
- You don't have to understand.
You just have to trust

823
00:45:37,402 --> 00:45:39,194
that this is what
you have to do.

824
00:45:39,195 --> 00:45:42,448
Salome danced because
she had something to say.

825
00:45:42,449 --> 00:45:45,742
Not because she had to
prove anything to anybody.

826
00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:47,745
Not the least of all to you.

827
00:45:49,289 --> 00:45:51,748
[thunder rumbling
in distance]

828
00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:54,169
[quiet tense score]

829
00:45:58,047 --> 00:46:00,132
- The winter storm
has taken down a tree

830
00:46:00,133 --> 00:46:01,509
at the house I'm staying in.

831
00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:04,970
No major damage done.

832
00:46:04,971 --> 00:46:08,307
But the owners will come back
to find it broken.

833
00:46:08,308 --> 00:46:09,516
[shutter clicking]

834
00:46:09,517 --> 00:46:11,518
I send them a picture
to lessen the blow.

835
00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:12,979
[rain patters on windows]

836
00:46:14,439 --> 00:46:16,148
- It's so strange
to be surrounded

837
00:46:16,149 --> 00:46:18,610
by photos
of somebody else's family.

838
00:46:20,361 --> 00:46:21,820
Especially when
I'm thinking about

839
00:46:21,821 --> 00:46:23,573
the family that you promised me.

840
00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:28,869
Did you ever believe
in that family, Charles?

841
00:46:28,870 --> 00:46:31,121
- I try to speak with you,
Charles.

842
00:46:31,122 --> 00:46:34,791
- Were you... really prepared
to leave her for me?

843
00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:36,460
- As though you're beside me.

844
00:46:36,461 --> 00:46:38,171
[woman opera singer
singing in German]

845
00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:45,970
I've been asked
to make this personal.

846
00:46:50,517 --> 00:46:52,060
So I am.

847
00:46:53,186 --> 00:46:55,355
Pretending that
you can hear my words.

848
00:46:58,816 --> 00:47:00,692
I feel my hair

849
00:47:00,693 --> 00:47:04,196
as a singer you directed
so long ago feels his hair.

850
00:47:04,197 --> 00:47:05,490
[singing becomes louder]

851
00:47:16,709 --> 00:47:19,753
I watch how
possessed she became

852
00:47:19,754 --> 00:47:21,839
and remember how
possessed I became.

853
00:47:23,716 --> 00:47:25,301
The crazed enchantment.

854
00:47:28,888 --> 00:47:30,347
How do I bring you back?

855
00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:31,808
[tense score]

856
00:47:33,226 --> 00:47:34,768
Bring what we had back?

857
00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:36,354
[thunder rumbles]

858
00:47:38,022 --> 00:47:39,899
I brought the book
of pictures you made.

859
00:47:42,610 --> 00:47:44,404
I hold it as something sacred.

860
00:47:47,907 --> 00:47:50,660
A faint
and lingering fragrance.

861
00:47:55,540 --> 00:47:57,124
[rustling]

862
00:47:57,125 --> 00:47:58,960
The inhalation of you.

863
00:48:03,214 --> 00:48:05,967
Blurred traces
of your spirit, Charles.

864
00:48:10,054 --> 00:48:12,097
The beautiful dance
of her fingers

865
00:48:12,098 --> 00:48:14,142
as they draw energy
from his lips.

866
00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:17,854
Your lips.

867
00:48:24,277 --> 00:48:26,236
The moon has a
strange look tonight.

868
00:48:26,237 --> 00:48:28,989
[woman continues singing
in German]

869
00:48:28,990 --> 00:48:30,907
She is like a madwoman

870
00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:34,453
seeking everywhere for lovers.

871
00:48:34,454 --> 00:48:35,455
[man sings in German]

872
00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:41,002
I can feel you beside me
as I watch.

873
00:48:44,380 --> 00:48:46,966
The way your fingers
ran over my skin.

874
00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:53,180
The electric shock
of your touch.

875
00:48:53,181 --> 00:48:54,891
[woman sings in German]

876
00:48:58,561 --> 00:48:59,936
Having you inside me.

877
00:48:59,937 --> 00:49:01,855
[man sings in German]

878
00:49:01,856 --> 00:49:03,441
[gunshot]

879
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,611
I wanted you so much.

880
00:49:07,612 --> 00:49:09,072
[dramatic opera music]

881
00:49:11,616 --> 00:49:14,243
And thou did'st
fill my veins with fire.

882
00:49:15,411 --> 00:49:18,830
Wherefore dids't thou
not look at me?

883
00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:21,500
If thou hast looked at me,

884
00:49:21,501 --> 00:49:23,043
thou hast loved me.

885
00:49:23,044 --> 00:49:25,837
[Johan singing in German]

886
00:49:25,838 --> 00:49:27,882
Well, I know that thou
would'st have loved me.

887
00:49:29,133 --> 00:49:30,802
[singing in German continues]

888
00:49:34,055 --> 00:49:35,847
I shoot the new singers
in their costumes

889
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:37,724
for the first time.

890
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,268
They look just like their
counterparts from back then.

891
00:49:40,269 --> 00:49:41,853
- Jeanine:
You look amazing, Carolyn.

892
00:49:41,854 --> 00:49:43,355
- They laugh nervously
as I tell them

893
00:49:43,356 --> 00:49:45,399
how good they look.

894
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,193
But I know that they'll never
achieve the crazy rapture

895
00:49:48,194 --> 00:49:50,237
you got with your singers
back then.

896
00:49:50,238 --> 00:49:52,489
- Where's my mark?
- Oh, mark there.

897
00:49:52,490 --> 00:49:54,742
- What more can I do
to inspire them, Charles...

898
00:49:56,828 --> 00:49:58,579
to get the same performance
as you did?

899
00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:03,709
Never!

900
00:50:03,710 --> 00:50:10,382
I will kiss thy mouth,
Jokanaan

901
00:50:10,383 --> 00:50:13,427
I will kiss thy mouth

902
00:50:13,428 --> 00:50:17,723
Princess, thou art
like a garden of myrrh

903
00:50:17,724 --> 00:50:20,726
Thou art the dove
of all doves

904
00:50:20,727 --> 00:50:22,728
Look not at this man

905
00:50:22,729 --> 00:50:26,565
Do not speak
such words to him

906
00:50:26,566 --> 00:50:30,610
I cannot suffer them

907
00:50:30,611 --> 00:50:31,486
I will kiss...

908
00:50:31,487 --> 00:50:32,947
- Carolyn?
- [singing, piano stop]

909
00:50:36,242 --> 00:50:39,203
Is there any way you can
move your head up and down?

910
00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:44,666
Because I-I just really wanna--
I want it to--

911
00:50:44,667 --> 00:50:47,085
be very clear as to what...

912
00:50:47,086 --> 00:50:48,337
what you're doing.

913
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:51,590
And-and if you look at
what Ambur's doing,

914
00:50:51,591 --> 00:50:53,925
I can-I can, I can feel
her desperation

915
00:50:53,926 --> 00:50:55,635
in her entire body.

916
00:50:55,636 --> 00:51:00,766
She's just, and I-and I,
I just wanna feel like, um,

917
00:51:00,767 --> 00:51:03,435
like you have that
exact same need.

918
00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:06,772
So I guess if you just,
like, a little bit more...

919
00:51:06,773 --> 00:51:08,815
movement

920
00:51:08,816 --> 00:51:11,318
in the moment.

921
00:51:11,319 --> 00:51:14,279
- You want me to look at Ambur.
- No, no, no, no, no.

922
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,990
Just [sputters]
you stay with Narraboth.

923
00:51:16,991 --> 00:51:19,284
And with the--more...

924
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:21,661
- Okay.
- I think we should

925
00:51:21,662 --> 00:51:24,831
maybe... take it back
to the rehearsal room.

926
00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,043
- We'll have to get the
intimacy coordinator for this.

927
00:51:28,294 --> 00:51:30,045
She should be around
for this kind of thing.

928
00:51:30,046 --> 00:51:31,755
- The intimacy coordinator.

929
00:51:31,756 --> 00:51:33,590
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

930
00:51:33,591 --> 00:51:36,343
- Was it important to you
back then? And...

931
00:51:36,344 --> 00:51:39,095
is it important to you now?

932
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:41,807
- I'm sorry, what?
Was what important?

933
00:51:41,808 --> 00:51:44,726
- That it feels like they're
actually having sex on stage.

934
00:51:44,727 --> 00:51:46,937
- Right.

935
00:51:46,938 --> 00:51:49,898
Well, I'm trying to...

936
00:51:49,899 --> 00:51:53,318
- fulfill the original concept.
- Yeah, but it's your show now.

937
00:51:53,319 --> 00:51:55,654
- In some ways.
- And whatever erotic energy

938
00:51:55,655 --> 00:51:57,739
existed back then,
it's not necessarily

939
00:51:57,740 --> 00:51:59,825
what we're dealing
with now. Right?

940
00:51:59,826 --> 00:52:03,453
I mean, you're not
the same person that you were

941
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:06,706
and he's not the same person
that he was.

942
00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:08,083
- Charles is dead.

943
00:52:08,084 --> 00:52:10,043
- Hm.

944
00:52:10,044 --> 00:52:11,545
Of course.

945
00:52:11,546 --> 00:52:14,298
So he's definitely
not the same person. Hm.

946
00:52:17,009 --> 00:52:19,344
- So, we're gonna go
all the way down.

947
00:52:19,345 --> 00:52:23,640
Long, flat back
and then roll up... Great.

948
00:52:23,641 --> 00:52:26,142
And then do a real, um,
do a really thorough, like,

949
00:52:26,143 --> 00:52:28,562
back bend, like a roll-through.
Kind of like cat cow in...

950
00:52:28,563 --> 00:52:30,438
- [piano, singing]
- Where is he?

951
00:52:30,439 --> 00:52:33,733
- Uh, he just messaged.
He's running late 15 minutes.

952
00:52:33,734 --> 00:52:37,070
- Okay, I don't think
we can do this without him.

953
00:52:37,071 --> 00:52:39,155
And this intimacy coordinator's
not working for me.

954
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:41,241
- Feels like a waste of time.
- But we have no choice.

955
00:52:41,242 --> 00:52:43,994
We need an intimacy coordinator
for these scenes.

956
00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:46,705
- Mmm... Do we?

957
00:52:46,706 --> 00:52:48,832
- Yes, it's a requirement.

958
00:52:48,833 --> 00:52:50,542
- Okay, Ambur, stop.

959
00:52:50,543 --> 00:52:52,128
[piano, singing stop]

960
00:52:53,296 --> 00:52:55,673
Luke, could you come with me
for a second please?

961
00:52:58,342 --> 00:53:00,760
It's good. It's so good.
The physicality--

962
00:53:00,761 --> 00:53:02,679
working on physicality's great
but it has to be

963
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,639
driven from something, right?

964
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,392
You have to be inspired
by what is happening.

965
00:53:07,393 --> 00:53:10,729
There has to be
something moving you

966
00:53:10,730 --> 00:53:14,190
that's more in your body
and your soul.

967
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:16,234
So, as she is singing,

968
00:53:16,235 --> 00:53:20,322
about how beautiful
John the Baptist's hair is,

969
00:53:20,323 --> 00:53:22,115
you are using that
as permission

970
00:53:22,116 --> 00:53:26,828
as an opportunity that the music
is also giving you

971
00:53:26,829 --> 00:53:30,373
to then touch him.
Right? So, you--

972
00:53:30,374 --> 00:53:34,003
From the part where
she says his hair is amazing.

973
00:53:36,422 --> 00:53:38,173
[piano chord plays]

974
00:53:38,174 --> 00:53:40,967
So, it's like you suddenly
have this ability

975
00:53:40,968 --> 00:53:44,054
to express through your fingers

976
00:53:44,055 --> 00:53:47,515
everything that Salome
can only sing about.

977
00:53:47,516 --> 00:53:49,643
[low tense score]

978
00:53:49,644 --> 00:53:52,480
[Jeanine speaks German]

979
00:53:53,814 --> 00:53:56,609
It is...
in thy hair...

980
00:53:58,444 --> 00:54:00,320
that I am enamored.

981
00:54:00,321 --> 00:54:02,239
Let me touch thy hair.

982
00:54:05,368 --> 00:54:06,786
Thank you.

983
00:54:07,870 --> 00:54:09,372
[intriguing score]

984
00:54:12,583 --> 00:54:15,294
And then there's this
crazy thing happening downstage.

985
00:54:16,671 --> 00:54:20,256
And, so, everything that
you're doing is unleashed then.

986
00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:21,466
Think of Salome.

987
00:54:21,467 --> 00:54:23,635
She is using
everything in her power

988
00:54:23,636 --> 00:54:26,388
to have this
crazy man beheaded.

989
00:54:26,389 --> 00:54:28,473
[laughs]

990
00:54:28,474 --> 00:54:31,017
So, what is the point
of all this sacrifice

991
00:54:31,018 --> 00:54:32,811
that ends
in the most gruesome thing

992
00:54:32,812 --> 00:54:35,146
that you've ever seen on stage?

993
00:54:35,147 --> 00:54:38,984
Is it passion?
Is it punishment? What is it?

994
00:54:38,985 --> 00:54:42,487
But whatever it is, that emotion
that you're getting from it,

995
00:54:42,488 --> 00:54:44,531
that emotion
is filtering through you.

996
00:54:44,532 --> 00:54:46,366
[laughs]

997
00:54:46,367 --> 00:54:48,994
It's painful
and it's beautiful

998
00:54:48,995 --> 00:54:52,872
and-and-and-and-and, so,
you're not just sucking him off,

999
00:54:52,873 --> 00:54:58,586
you are fully consuming him
so much so that he has...

1000
00:54:58,587 --> 00:55:01,673
he has nothing else to do
but pick up the gun,

1001
00:55:01,674 --> 00:55:04,300
point it to his head
and shoot himself dead

1002
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:06,011
[score fades out]

1003
00:55:06,012 --> 00:55:09,180
just as he's
about to come.

1004
00:55:09,181 --> 00:55:10,807
Explosion.

1005
00:55:10,808 --> 00:55:12,309
[gentle piano score]

1006
00:55:14,895 --> 00:55:16,896
And then Salome
picks up the gun

1007
00:55:16,897 --> 00:55:19,524
that he just used
to kill himself

1008
00:55:19,525 --> 00:55:23,778
and she walks downstage,
she puts the gun to her head

1009
00:55:23,779 --> 00:55:25,698
just like she's going to
shoot herself.

1010
00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:29,285
[Herod laughs]

1011
00:55:38,502 --> 00:55:40,587
- Jeanine: I don't understand.
Are you... Are you spying on me?

1012
00:55:40,588 --> 00:55:42,213
- Of course not.

1013
00:55:42,214 --> 00:55:44,507
I'm here to support you
in any way I can.

1014
00:55:44,508 --> 00:55:46,301
- Okay, so, I don't understand
what you're saying.

1015
00:55:46,302 --> 00:55:48,720
- That management
is a little concerned

1016
00:55:48,721 --> 00:55:51,056
about some of the ideas that
you had at the presentation.

1017
00:55:51,057 --> 00:55:53,767
- [groans] Beatrice.
- About making changes.

1018
00:55:53,768 --> 00:55:56,936
- I said
they are small changes.

1019
00:55:56,937 --> 00:55:59,355
- Right, but then you had
this idea about Salome

1020
00:55:59,356 --> 00:56:02,233
shooting herself.

1021
00:56:02,234 --> 00:56:03,777
- What?

1022
00:56:03,778 --> 00:56:06,696
He shoots himself.
Narraboth.

1023
00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:10,075
- But then
she picks up his gun and--

1024
00:56:10,076 --> 00:56:11,951
- And contemplates it.

1025
00:56:11,952 --> 00:56:14,037
[score fades out]
[Kathy sighs]

1026
00:56:14,038 --> 00:56:16,790
She doesn't kill herself.

1027
00:56:16,791 --> 00:56:19,292
If, if she killed herself,
then the opera

1028
00:56:19,293 --> 00:56:22,253
would end right there
and it doesn't. Right?

1029
00:56:22,254 --> 00:56:23,588
If she died,

1030
00:56:23,589 --> 00:56:27,967
then there wouldn't be
anybody to sing her role.

1031
00:56:27,968 --> 00:56:30,428
Like, what,
what's with the head, then?

1032
00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:33,515
I mean, what is this all for?
That is ridiculous.

1033
00:56:33,516 --> 00:56:36,476
- But now you have this idea
about her mother

1034
00:56:36,477 --> 00:56:38,311
and the machete...

1035
00:56:38,312 --> 00:56:41,106
I-I have to tell them.
I'm just letting you know that.

1036
00:56:41,107 --> 00:56:42,607
- So, you are spying on me.

1037
00:56:42,608 --> 00:56:45,276
- Look, we all understand
that you must

1038
00:56:45,277 --> 00:56:47,445
feel very conflicted
about all of this, but--

1039
00:56:47,446 --> 00:56:49,239
- No, I'm not.
I'm-I'm really not.

1040
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:50,699
Really, when I chose...

1041
00:56:51,951 --> 00:56:53,576
When I accepted this job,

1042
00:56:53,577 --> 00:56:56,955
I told myself that I was gonna
make the most of it. Okay?

1043
00:56:56,956 --> 00:56:58,873
So, you know,
you can tell management

1044
00:56:58,874 --> 00:57:01,793
that it was an odd choice
on their part to remount this.

1045
00:57:01,794 --> 00:57:03,795
Okay, considering
that everybody

1046
00:57:03,796 --> 00:57:06,882
thought that Charles
was difficult, to say the least.

1047
00:57:08,175 --> 00:57:11,261
Even though management
happened to be married to him

1048
00:57:11,262 --> 00:57:13,179
for 30 years.

1049
00:57:13,180 --> 00:57:16,432
- It was Beatrice's decision.
It's a successful show.

1050
00:57:16,433 --> 00:57:19,936
- Okay, but she didn't have to
fulfill his stupid wish.

1051
00:57:19,937 --> 00:57:22,605
Nobody had to,
to take that request seriously.

1052
00:57:22,606 --> 00:57:25,733
It's not like somebody was gonna
sue them if I didn't remount it.

1053
00:57:25,734 --> 00:57:27,777
No one needed to know.
I didn't need to know.

1054
00:57:27,778 --> 00:57:29,947
We wouldn't even be
having this conversation, Kathy.

1055
00:57:31,073 --> 00:57:33,200
[door opens]
[indistinct conversation]

1056
00:57:34,493 --> 00:57:36,286
- Look, I should head back.

1057
00:57:36,287 --> 00:57:37,704
Everybody's getting
off break now and...

1058
00:57:37,705 --> 00:57:39,622
- Yeah. It's fine.

1059
00:57:39,623 --> 00:57:41,833
[shuddering breath, exhale]

1060
00:57:41,834 --> 00:57:43,168
[door opens]

1061
00:57:43,169 --> 00:57:44,836
[tense score]

1062
00:57:44,837 --> 00:57:47,089
[sniffle, deep exhale]

1063
00:57:48,340 --> 00:57:50,384
- Harold: Your daughter
is going to dance for me.

1064
00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:54,721
Will you not dance for me,
Salome?

1065
00:57:54,722 --> 00:57:58,183
- Charlie:
That is really enlightening.

1066
00:57:58,184 --> 00:58:00,643
- Harold: If you dance for me,

1067
00:58:00,644 --> 00:58:02,645
you may ask of me
whatever you wish

1068
00:58:02,646 --> 00:58:04,022
and I will give it to thee.

1069
00:58:04,023 --> 00:58:06,108
- Charlie: But that leads me
to my next question.

1070
00:58:07,902 --> 00:58:10,320
I hear you're making a diary
about the whole experience.

1071
00:58:10,321 --> 00:58:12,238
Is that like, um...

1072
00:58:12,239 --> 00:58:13,615
like a last letter
to Charles?

1073
00:58:13,616 --> 00:58:15,326
[score fades out]

1074
00:58:17,036 --> 00:58:19,370
- A journal, uh, yeah,
I was thinking about that.

1075
00:58:19,371 --> 00:58:22,708
I was. I think it's a--
It would be nice to...

1076
00:58:24,501 --> 00:58:27,503
To-to, um,
to write about my...

1077
00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:31,507
my experience as I'm
taking on this production.

1078
00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:34,385
Um, I am shooting some footage

1079
00:58:34,386 --> 00:58:36,221
behind the scenes
with my iPhone.

1080
00:58:36,222 --> 00:58:39,182
I think that's gonna...
turn into something.

1081
00:58:39,183 --> 00:58:44,062
I don't know what yet, but
it's important to me to, to...

1082
00:58:44,063 --> 00:58:46,356
to have that footage.

1083
00:58:46,357 --> 00:58:49,944
- Okay, that sounds
really interesting. And, um...

1084
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,572
Can we talk about the
relationship between you two

1085
00:58:54,573 --> 00:58:55,990
during the original production?

1086
00:58:55,991 --> 00:58:57,075
- What do you mean?

1087
00:58:57,076 --> 00:58:59,119
- I mean your relationship
with Charles.

1088
00:59:01,247 --> 00:59:02,498
- Our working relationship.

1089
00:59:03,582 --> 00:59:06,960
- I mean, didn't it
go beyond that? It's...

1090
00:59:06,961 --> 00:59:09,087
kind of common knowledge
around here.

1091
00:59:09,088 --> 00:59:12,173
- I-I don't feel comfortable
talking about that.

1092
00:59:12,174 --> 00:59:15,593
Okay, if-if we can
not discuss that.

1093
00:59:15,594 --> 00:59:17,387
- Of course.

1094
00:59:17,388 --> 00:59:20,556
How about
I share something with you?

1095
00:59:20,557 --> 00:59:22,809
- I knew Charles.

1096
00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:24,895
Charles told me his story once

1097
00:59:25,980 --> 00:59:29,357
about how the whole
dance section in the opera

1098
00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:31,734
is, um...

1099
00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:35,154
based on something
that happened with your father.

1100
00:59:35,155 --> 00:59:36,657
In real life.

1101
00:59:38,242 --> 00:59:40,285
And I-I had the
absolute privilege

1102
00:59:40,286 --> 00:59:42,412
to see the essay that you
wanted to print in the program.

1103
00:59:42,413 --> 00:59:44,080
I thought it was
incredibly disrespectful

1104
00:59:44,081 --> 00:59:45,499
they didn't want to use it.

1105
00:59:48,335 --> 00:59:49,795
But, um...

1106
00:59:53,215 --> 00:59:55,508
I was interested
in your fascination

1107
00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:57,802
in Herod's line to Salome,
you know?

1108
00:59:57,803 --> 01:00:00,638
About loving her too much.

1109
01:00:00,639 --> 01:00:03,933
Charles told me that your dad
used to make these crazy videos

1110
01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:07,312
about you and you both would go
into the forest when were little

1111
01:00:07,313 --> 01:00:09,564
and he would tape you while
you made these bizarre dances.

1112
01:00:09,565 --> 01:00:12,275
I mean, how do you feel
about how that has inspired,

1113
01:00:12,276 --> 01:00:14,527
- ...very clearly...
- [tense score]

1114
01:00:14,528 --> 01:00:16,404
a major part
of this whole show?

1115
01:00:16,405 --> 01:00:18,281
[thunder rumbling]
[eerie score]

1116
01:00:18,282 --> 01:00:19,742
[rope creaking]

1117
01:00:31,879 --> 01:00:33,504
- I...

1118
01:00:33,505 --> 01:00:36,467
think I need a break.

1119
01:00:38,218 --> 01:00:39,720
Excuse me.

1120
01:00:43,182 --> 01:00:45,475
- Something wrong?

1121
01:00:45,476 --> 01:00:47,643
Beatrice wants
to have a word with you.

1122
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:49,645
Harold: Do you feel
the wind on your skin?

1123
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:51,356
- Young Jeanine: Yeah.

1124
01:00:51,357 --> 01:00:53,983
- Yes? It's more sensitive now,
isn't it?

1125
01:00:53,984 --> 01:00:57,028
- Jeanine: It is true, Salome.
- Harold: Take away one sense,

1126
01:00:57,029 --> 01:00:58,488
all the others
become heightened.

1127
01:00:58,489 --> 01:00:59,989
- Your beauty
has troubled me.

1128
01:00:59,990 --> 01:01:02,825
- More intense.
Remember that.

1129
01:01:02,826 --> 01:01:04,702
- Your beauty
has grievously troubled me.

1130
01:01:04,703 --> 01:01:06,913
- That's your responsibility
as an artist.

1131
01:01:06,914 --> 01:01:07,914
[sighs]

1132
01:01:07,915 --> 01:01:10,666
[dramatic score]

1133
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:12,669
- Jeanine: And I have
looked at you too much.

1134
01:01:14,546 --> 01:01:17,383
It may be
that I have loved you too much.

1135
01:01:19,885 --> 01:01:22,178
- She's had a good day.

1136
01:01:22,179 --> 01:01:24,389
- Is that right, Mom?

1137
01:01:24,390 --> 01:01:26,015
- If that's what she says.

1138
01:01:26,016 --> 01:01:27,476
- Oh.

1139
01:01:30,187 --> 01:01:31,605
- Do you know where I am?

1140
01:01:32,815 --> 01:01:35,566
- Doing your work.

1141
01:01:35,567 --> 01:01:37,568
- And what is that?

1142
01:01:37,569 --> 01:01:39,779
- Making plays.

1143
01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:41,490
You've always liked plays.

1144
01:01:42,783 --> 01:01:45,034
You like making things up.

1145
01:01:45,035 --> 01:01:47,578
[dramatic score continues]

1146
01:01:47,579 --> 01:01:49,497
- Are you proud
of your daughter?

1147
01:01:49,498 --> 01:01:50,957
- Oh, yes.

1148
01:01:50,958 --> 01:01:52,917
- See?

1149
01:01:52,918 --> 01:01:54,670
- Proud of the things
I make up?

1150
01:01:57,339 --> 01:01:59,383
Do you know how long
I'm gonna be gone, Mom?

1151
01:02:00,592 --> 01:02:02,802
- I'm not sure. [laughs]

1152
01:02:02,803 --> 01:02:04,346
- Ask Dimitra.
She knows.

1153
01:02:05,431 --> 01:02:06,890
Down to the hour.

1154
01:02:12,187 --> 01:02:14,647
[Margot laughs]

1155
01:02:14,648 --> 01:02:16,482
- 'Til the end of the month.
- Oh.

1156
01:02:16,483 --> 01:02:20,111
- Yeah. Exactly.
Just enough time.

1157
01:02:20,112 --> 01:02:21,697
[Margot laughs]

1158
01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:26,660
- She wonders if I know.

1159
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,457
This is probably almost exactly
how Beatrice imagined me.

1160
01:02:33,125 --> 01:02:35,168
Your wife.

1161
01:02:35,169 --> 01:02:38,005
Just a silly little threat.
Another passing fling.

1162
01:02:39,965 --> 01:02:43,093
What does she really know about
what has gone on in this house?

1163
01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:48,806
I imagine her swinging around
to glance at the family portrat

1164
01:02:48,807 --> 01:02:52,268
suddenly frightened
by the story it tells.

1165
01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:54,270
How my father
read me so many plays

1166
01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:57,482
and made me act out
so many scenes.

1167
01:02:57,483 --> 01:03:00,027
His artistic aspirations for me

1168
01:03:01,528 --> 01:03:06,324
somehow always as frustrated
as his aspirations for himself.

1169
01:03:06,325 --> 01:03:07,825
[score fades out]

1170
01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:10,536
- Now that we've abandoned
the sculpture idea,

1171
01:03:10,537 --> 01:03:13,748
we're going to try
for the more traditional method.

1172
01:03:13,749 --> 01:03:16,876
So the first step in the process
that you're going to see

1173
01:03:16,877 --> 01:03:21,714
is I will put a layer of
petroleum jelly on Johan's face,

1174
01:03:21,715 --> 01:03:26,385
and then, on top of that,
I'll use a soft alginate gel

1175
01:03:26,386 --> 01:03:29,013
which will pick up
the details of his skin.

1176
01:03:29,014 --> 01:03:32,225
And for that phase
I'm gonna work really quickly

1177
01:03:32,226 --> 01:03:34,393
because it dries super-fast,

1178
01:03:34,394 --> 01:03:37,021
like, it's gonna set
in less than ten minutes.

1179
01:03:37,022 --> 01:03:39,315
- [calm guitar music]
- So...

1180
01:03:39,316 --> 01:03:42,818
I end up being
your guinea pig after all.

1181
01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,489
- Yeah, I just realized that

1182
01:03:46,490 --> 01:03:48,741
there needed to be
a lot more detail in the head.

1183
01:03:48,742 --> 01:03:51,827
It's really gotta be lifelike,
especially for the broadcast.

1184
01:03:51,828 --> 01:03:54,498
- No worries.
I'm used to this.

1185
01:03:56,083 --> 01:03:58,251
It's the way
it's usually done.

1186
01:03:58,252 --> 01:04:00,211
- I'm sorry
to have wasted your time.

1187
01:04:00,212 --> 01:04:02,630
- Not at all.

1188
01:04:02,631 --> 01:04:05,716
I enjoy watching you work.

1189
01:04:05,717 --> 01:04:07,719
[man and woman sing along
to gentle guitar]

1190
01:04:10,222 --> 01:04:14,059
Can I keep it? I mean...
the sculpture?

1191
01:04:15,352 --> 01:04:17,062
- Yeah, I guess.

1192
01:04:20,566 --> 01:04:24,194
- I'll give it to the
national gallery back home.

1193
01:04:26,905 --> 01:04:28,864
- Okay, I'm gonna put some
on your lips now

1194
01:04:28,865 --> 01:04:30,741
so you might
want to stop talking.

1195
01:04:30,742 --> 01:04:33,536
- My lips will be sealed.

1196
01:04:33,537 --> 01:04:34,787
- Uh, no, no.

1197
01:04:34,788 --> 01:04:37,957
- Stop it?
- No, just... Stop!

1198
01:04:37,958 --> 01:04:40,127
- Stop!
- [objects clatter onto floor]

1199
01:04:41,712 --> 01:04:45,965
- This was unexpected.
- [tense score]

1200
01:04:45,966 --> 01:04:49,635
A singer
playing John the Baptist

1201
01:04:49,636 --> 01:04:51,179
makes a pass at me.

1202
01:04:53,265 --> 01:04:56,893
What's that thing in the Bible
about judge not?

1203
01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:00,188
[indistinct conversations
in background]

1204
01:05:04,359 --> 01:05:05,861
- Things became...

1205
01:05:07,237 --> 01:05:08,780
really complicated.

1206
01:05:11,742 --> 01:05:15,203
Like, when you and I were
working on that thing in school

1207
01:05:18,332 --> 01:05:19,791
things were...

1208
01:05:20,834 --> 01:05:22,001
really intense.

1209
01:05:22,002 --> 01:05:24,086
[score speeds up,
becomes more agitated]

1210
01:05:24,087 --> 01:05:26,422
- With Charles and you.

1211
01:05:26,423 --> 01:05:27,924
- Mmm.

1212
01:05:31,303 --> 01:05:32,804
And...

1213
01:05:34,598 --> 01:05:36,391
And other things.

1214
01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:43,689
- I sensed
something was going on.

1215
01:05:43,690 --> 01:05:45,524
- No you didn't.

1216
01:05:45,525 --> 01:05:47,110
No.

1217
01:05:48,487 --> 01:05:49,988
How?

1218
01:05:51,657 --> 01:05:53,325
- I was watching you...

1219
01:05:54,534 --> 01:05:57,119
the whole time.

1220
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:58,372
I couldn't
take my eyes off you.

1221
01:06:00,457 --> 01:06:05,127
(chuckles) Um, I could tell
you were in a crazy place.

1222
01:06:05,128 --> 01:06:06,837
[discordant score]

1223
01:06:06,838 --> 01:06:08,590
I wanted to help you
find a way out.

1224
01:06:13,595 --> 01:06:15,179
- Jeanine: Somewhere.

1225
01:06:15,180 --> 01:06:16,682
Here...

1226
01:06:18,183 --> 01:06:20,435
there's an awful
sense of vagueness.

1227
01:06:23,814 --> 01:06:27,233
Uncertainty
between what I remember

1228
01:06:27,234 --> 01:06:29,361
and what actually took place.

1229
01:06:34,700 --> 01:06:36,492
The girl takes off her blindfod

1230
01:06:36,493 --> 01:06:38,202
and stares ahead
as he scurries away.

1231
01:06:38,203 --> 01:06:40,539
[intermittent drumming]
[film projector sound]

1232
01:06:42,499 --> 01:06:45,376
She feels the blindfold
in her hand

1233
01:06:45,377 --> 01:06:47,545
rubbing it
as other shadows appear.

1234
01:06:47,546 --> 01:06:50,424
[expansive orchestra score
with drumming]

1235
01:06:54,511 --> 01:06:56,429
Ravenous men

1236
01:06:56,430 --> 01:06:59,099
watching as she dances
for her father.

1237
01:07:00,434 --> 01:07:01,935
And for them.

1238
01:07:10,652 --> 01:07:12,903
I never agreed with
the way you staged

1239
01:07:12,904 --> 01:07:14,906
these dark monsters, Charles.

1240
01:07:16,324 --> 01:07:19,076
How you made Salome look
like a stripper in a club

1241
01:07:19,077 --> 01:07:22,955
performing for
a bunch of leering customers.

1242
01:07:22,956 --> 01:07:25,708
It was never like that.

1243
01:07:25,709 --> 01:07:28,544
Not from what I remembered.

1244
01:07:28,545 --> 01:07:30,130
Not from what I told you.

1245
01:07:34,426 --> 01:07:36,385
They touched her.

1246
01:07:36,386 --> 01:07:37,888
They stroked her.

1247
01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:41,725
Did she give them permission?

1248
01:07:43,769 --> 01:07:45,270
You never made that clear.

1249
01:07:50,317 --> 01:07:52,194
This dark doppelganger.

1250
01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:57,616
No, it was never like that.

1251
01:07:59,910 --> 01:08:01,411
That's not how it felt.

1252
01:08:04,790 --> 01:08:07,792
I remember dark fangs and talos

1253
01:08:07,793 --> 01:08:10,879
and their terrible wings
as they beat the air around me.

1254
01:08:13,757 --> 01:08:15,258
I remember feeling trapped.

1255
01:08:16,510 --> 01:08:18,345
But there was nowhere
to escape to.

1256
01:08:22,057 --> 01:08:23,809
[film projector whirring]

1257
01:08:30,565 --> 01:08:32,359
Now, this time...

1258
01:08:33,610 --> 01:08:34,611
I try something different.

1259
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:39,448
- And then, now,
I kind of wanna feel the trees.

1260
01:08:39,449 --> 01:08:41,200
I wanna feel
like we're in the forest.

1261
01:08:41,201 --> 01:08:43,828
Not deep into it but I just
wanna sense she's in the forest.

1262
01:08:43,829 --> 01:08:47,122
- I want the trees
and branches to come alive

1263
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:49,417
with a sense of the horror
they are witnessing.

1264
01:08:51,086 --> 01:08:52,253
- I really wanna feel...

1265
01:08:52,254 --> 01:08:53,963
- Like their spirits
are being tortured

1266
01:08:53,964 --> 01:08:56,882
as Salome performs
her nightmarish

1267
01:08:56,883 --> 01:08:58,468
dance of the seven veils.

1268
01:08:59,970 --> 01:09:01,554
- And can you
make the body feel like

1269
01:09:01,555 --> 01:09:03,389
you're almost
getting younger?

1270
01:09:03,390 --> 01:09:05,475
From a woman
into a little girl.

1271
01:09:07,686 --> 01:09:10,355
And then I want a scream.
I want a, I want a, just a...

1272
01:09:13,024 --> 01:09:15,860
Amazing. Yeah. Okay, perf--
And then she's bigger.

1273
01:09:15,861 --> 01:09:17,987
You can get even bigger
and bigger.

1274
01:09:17,988 --> 01:09:19,698
[no vocalizing]

1275
01:09:28,623 --> 01:09:31,250
- I am Salome.

1276
01:09:31,251 --> 01:09:33,669
Daughter of Herodias.

1277
01:09:33,670 --> 01:09:35,296
Princess of Judea.

1278
01:09:35,297 --> 01:09:37,549
[driving, rhythmic score]

1279
01:09:49,144 --> 01:09:50,686
[score diminishes to low tone]

1280
01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:52,438
- Jeanine: What does Ambur
really think of the ballerinas?

1281
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:55,524
- I wanna break them.

1282
01:09:55,525 --> 01:09:57,693
- Are you serious?
- Mm, very.

1283
01:09:57,694 --> 01:09:59,403
Just cover my eyes.

1284
01:09:59,404 --> 01:10:02,072
[indistinct conversations]
[Ambur laughs]

1285
01:10:02,073 --> 01:10:05,535
[score gets louder]

1286
01:10:09,414 --> 01:10:19,423
Let me kiss thy mouth,
Jokanaan

1287
01:10:19,424 --> 01:10:22,384
Cursed be thou...

1288
01:10:22,385 --> 01:10:26,430
Daughter of
an incestuous mother

1289
01:10:26,431 --> 01:10:29,392
be thou accursed

1290
01:10:34,856 --> 01:10:40,820
Let me kiss thy mouth,
Jokanaan

1291
01:10:42,739 --> 01:10:46,241
I will not look at thee

1292
01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:50,496
Thou art accursed, Salome,
thou are accursed

1293
01:10:50,497 --> 01:10:54,709
Thou art accursed

1294
01:10:56,294 --> 01:11:00,507
Thou art accursed

1295
01:11:05,428 --> 01:11:10,392
Thou art accursed

1296
01:11:11,768 --> 01:11:15,438
[score resumes loudly]

1297
01:11:17,732 --> 01:11:19,108
[gunshot]

1298
01:11:19,109 --> 01:11:20,819
[dramatic score]

1299
01:12:28,553 --> 01:12:31,473
- Jeanine: It is thy mouth
that I desire.

1300
01:12:34,309 --> 01:12:37,311
It is like a pomegranate
cut in twain

1301
01:12:37,312 --> 01:12:39,022
with a knife.

1302
01:12:47,781 --> 01:12:49,949
Suffer me
to kiss thy mouth.

1303
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:00,959
- Clea: No...

1304
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,629
- Stop! Stop!
- [objects clatter on floor]

1305
01:13:03,630 --> 01:13:04,838
[score ends abruptly]

1306
01:13:04,839 --> 01:13:08,634
- I don't understand.
Was this staged?

1307
01:13:08,635 --> 01:13:10,511
- Uh, what do you mean?

1308
01:13:10,512 --> 01:13:12,889
- Did you ask him
to do this?

1309
01:13:13,973 --> 01:13:18,811
- No. No, of course not.
I told him to stop.

1310
01:13:18,812 --> 01:13:20,647
- Okay, but...
- And he didn't.

1311
01:13:22,148 --> 01:13:25,943
- And why are you thinking
of sending this out now?

1312
01:13:25,944 --> 01:13:28,403
Didn't this happen
a few days ago?

1313
01:13:28,404 --> 01:13:31,949
- Last week
as I was making the cast.

1314
01:13:31,950 --> 01:13:34,827
- And you finished
making the cast,

1315
01:13:34,828 --> 01:13:36,411
let's be clear on that.

1316
01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:38,831
This thing happened

1317
01:13:38,832 --> 01:13:41,291
then you went ahead
and finished making the cast.

1318
01:13:41,292 --> 01:13:44,796
- It took me a while
to fully absorb it.

1319
01:13:48,675 --> 01:13:50,843
You asked me
to document everything

1320
01:13:50,844 --> 01:13:53,846
that went into making
the head of John the Baptist.

1321
01:13:53,847 --> 01:13:55,306
And this is everything.

1322
01:13:56,474 --> 01:13:57,975
- Okay.

1323
01:13:57,976 --> 01:14:01,270
But this is also
a recording of, uh,

1324
01:14:01,271 --> 01:14:03,689
of an attack. Uh...
[laughs nervously]

1325
01:14:03,690 --> 01:14:06,150
A sexual attack.

1326
01:14:06,151 --> 01:14:07,819
- And you're making that public.

1327
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:10,946
- That's right.

1328
01:14:10,947 --> 01:14:13,198
- Just before we open
this production.

1329
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:14,701
[tense score]

1330
01:14:16,244 --> 01:14:17,912
Why?

1331
01:14:19,956 --> 01:14:21,331
- I am...

1332
01:14:21,332 --> 01:14:25,169
just completing the job
that I was told to do.

1333
01:14:25,170 --> 01:14:27,963
I have an email from
the marketing team that says

1334
01:14:27,964 --> 01:14:31,550
I can, I can do this
any way that I want to.

1335
01:14:31,551 --> 01:14:33,969
That I should make it personal.

1336
01:14:33,970 --> 01:14:37,472
And this just got
very personal.

1337
01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:39,641
I feel that
I have a responsibility

1338
01:14:39,642 --> 01:14:41,518
to make it known.

1339
01:14:41,519 --> 01:14:44,146
- We're not obliged
to give our approval.

1340
01:14:44,147 --> 01:14:45,564
- Really?

1341
01:14:45,565 --> 01:14:48,692
You're not gonna
give me your approval?

1342
01:14:48,693 --> 01:14:51,195
Is that the message
that the opera company

1343
01:14:51,196 --> 01:14:52,654
wants to put out there

1344
01:14:52,655 --> 01:14:55,532
when I decide to
show this anyway?

1345
01:14:55,533 --> 01:14:58,035
I just-I don't-I don't think
that is a great idea

1346
01:14:58,036 --> 01:15:00,746
to try and ban me
from making this public.

1347
01:15:00,747 --> 01:15:02,040
- Does he know?

1348
01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:08,629
Johan.
That you're planning to do this?

1349
01:15:08,630 --> 01:15:10,131
- Not yet.

1350
01:15:14,219 --> 01:15:16,304
- Okay.
[clears throat]

1351
01:15:19,015 --> 01:15:20,808
What can we do
to get you to reconsider?

1352
01:15:22,101 --> 01:15:25,520
I know this must have been
very traumatic for you, Clea.

1353
01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:28,023
I'm not trying to
diminish that.

1354
01:15:28,024 --> 01:15:30,610
Is there any way
we can find a solution?

1355
01:15:32,362 --> 01:15:37,825
I would that they
presently bring me

1356
01:15:40,078 --> 01:15:44,581
on a silver platter

1357
01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:48,252
Surely yes,
on a silver platter

1358
01:15:48,253 --> 01:15:50,587
- What is she doing?

1359
01:15:50,588 --> 01:15:53,966
- What do you mean?
- Ambur, what is she doing?

1360
01:15:53,967 --> 01:15:59,012
What is it you would have
on a silver platter

1361
01:15:59,013 --> 01:16:01,932
Salome, you are
who are fairer

1362
01:16:01,933 --> 01:16:05,143
than all the daughters
of Judea

1363
01:16:05,144 --> 01:16:06,896
Why is she
in a different opera right now?

1364
01:16:08,356 --> 01:16:11,650
- Uh, is it the performance?

1365
01:16:11,651 --> 01:16:14,903
Whatsoever it may be,
they shall give it to you

1366
01:16:14,904 --> 01:16:17,072
- I--I...

1367
01:16:17,073 --> 01:16:20,075
I don't understand.
I thought...

1368
01:16:20,076 --> 01:16:22,160
Can we, like,
pause for one second?

1369
01:16:22,161 --> 01:16:23,537
[Kathy laughs]

1370
01:16:23,538 --> 01:16:25,998
- Uh, what is it
that you're not happy with?

1371
01:16:25,999 --> 01:16:27,082
What is it, Salome?

1372
01:16:27,083 --> 01:16:28,083
- Harold: Put your hand
to your face.

1373
01:16:28,084 --> 01:16:29,793
Yeah, perfect. Just like that.

1374
01:16:29,794 --> 01:16:31,545
It's sensual.
You know that word.

1375
01:16:31,546 --> 01:16:33,630
Some people have a problem
with that word.

1376
01:16:33,631 --> 01:16:35,299
But it sounds good.
It's not bad.

1377
01:16:35,300 --> 01:16:37,509
- I'm sorry, what is she doing?
What is she doing?

1378
01:16:37,510 --> 01:16:39,678
- Why is your hand
to your face like that?

1379
01:16:39,679 --> 01:16:41,013
Are you playful?

1380
01:16:41,014 --> 01:16:43,140
The head of Jokanaan
No!

1381
01:16:43,141 --> 01:16:45,475
- It's... Stop. Stop.
Sorry.

1382
01:16:45,476 --> 01:16:47,644
Ah! That is well said
my daughter

1383
01:16:47,645 --> 01:16:48,645
That is well said

1384
01:16:48,646 --> 01:16:51,606
- Stop. Stop, stop. Sorry.

1385
01:16:51,607 --> 01:16:53,859
- I'm sorry. I have one--
- [yelling in German]

1386
01:16:53,860 --> 01:16:56,486
- It's my rehearsal. Excuse me.
- I just need a moment.

1387
01:16:56,487 --> 01:16:58,780
- It's ridiculous.
- It's very important, okay?

1388
01:16:58,781 --> 01:17:01,491
Ambur, there's nothing
mischievous

1389
01:17:01,492 --> 01:17:04,161
- ...or sly or playful
- Go back into the dance.

1390
01:17:04,162 --> 01:17:06,371
- ...about any of this.
- Please go back to letter Q.

1391
01:17:06,372 --> 01:17:09,166
- You're not a sex kitten.
- Big letter Q with upbeat.

1392
01:17:09,167 --> 01:17:11,793
- You're not happy
about this decision.

1393
01:17:11,794 --> 01:17:13,211
- We take it with an upbeat.

1394
01:17:13,212 --> 01:17:16,048
- This is not something that
you're taking pleasure from.

1395
01:17:16,049 --> 01:17:18,759
You did not
dance naked for your father

1396
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:22,095
and allow yourself to be raped
by a gang of strangers

1397
01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:24,681
- [orchestra plays]
- for some petulant little game.

1398
01:17:24,682 --> 01:17:26,391
You agreed to do
this crazy dance

1399
01:17:26,392 --> 01:17:29,353
because you desperately needed
to show John the Baptist

1400
01:17:29,354 --> 01:17:31,271
that you love him.

1401
01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:34,191
Right? And this monster
is taking advantage of that.

1402
01:17:34,192 --> 01:17:37,361
And your mother is just
standing there, watching.

1403
01:17:37,362 --> 01:17:41,156
You are taking this action
because you want to, somehow,

1404
01:17:41,157 --> 01:17:43,658
liberate yourself
from your father

1405
01:17:43,659 --> 01:17:45,869
and everything
that he represents.

1406
01:17:45,870 --> 01:17:49,498
You need John the Baptist's head
because you need to prove

1407
01:17:49,499 --> 01:17:52,125
that you are worthy
of being loved.

1408
01:17:52,126 --> 01:17:56,838
You're not just a plaything
for your father's dark need

1409
01:17:56,839 --> 01:17:58,799
that he has to fulfill.

1410
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:03,595
This is something that you
now need to do for yourself.

1411
01:18:03,596 --> 01:18:04,888
Right?

1412
01:18:04,889 --> 01:18:07,641
Is it, is it gonna
make you feel better?

1413
01:18:07,642 --> 01:18:10,018
Is it gonna change anything?

1414
01:18:10,019 --> 01:18:11,269
You have no idea

1415
01:18:11,270 --> 01:18:13,480
what is going to come
of your actions.

1416
01:18:13,481 --> 01:18:14,899
[stirring orchestra music]

1417
01:18:17,110 --> 01:18:18,318
(emotional)
Nothing is clear to you

1418
01:18:18,319 --> 01:18:19,778
right now except your pain.

1419
01:18:19,779 --> 01:18:21,531
[music intensity increases]

1420
01:19:18,546 --> 01:19:20,298
[music turns sinister]

1421
01:19:25,178 --> 01:19:26,429
- Harold: Dance for me.

1422
01:19:28,014 --> 01:19:29,557
Dance for me.

1423
01:19:32,435 --> 01:19:34,604
Suffer me to touch thy body.

1424
01:19:45,948 --> 01:19:48,492
The moon
has a strange look tonight.

1425
01:19:48,493 --> 01:19:50,119
Hasn't she a strange look?

1426
01:20:31,285 --> 01:20:33,328
Keep following me.

1427
01:20:33,329 --> 01:20:34,830
Keep following my voice.

1428
01:20:41,629 --> 01:20:43,589
Keep coming, keep coming,
keep coming.

1429
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:10,408
[orchestra fades out,
resumes frenetically]

1430
01:21:26,591 --> 01:21:28,216
[orchestra plays quietly]

1431
01:21:28,217 --> 01:21:31,886
Slowly, slowly
you start to collapse.

1432
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:35,098
And as you're doing that,
you hear my words

1433
01:21:35,099 --> 01:21:37,727
and you remember these words.
They make you feel safe.

1434
01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:43,732
[dramatic music]

1435
01:21:43,733 --> 01:21:46,235
[rumbling]

1436
01:21:48,487 --> 01:21:50,113
- Why would you ask Dimitra
to do that?

1437
01:21:50,114 --> 01:21:53,658
- I'm sorry, I shouldn't have
to explain that to you, Paul.

1438
01:21:53,659 --> 01:21:56,286
It's always haunted me.
Okay?

1439
01:21:56,287 --> 01:21:59,122
- Okay. It's just so...
- It's what? Is it unnerving?

1440
01:21:59,123 --> 01:22:01,958
- It's-it's crazy.
- Yeah, it is crazy.

1441
01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:04,294
- You know what's even crazier?
I told Dimitra

1442
01:22:04,295 --> 01:22:06,671
that I was okay with
what you guys were doing

1443
01:22:06,672 --> 01:22:08,841
as long as she did
this one thing for me.

1444
01:22:12,845 --> 01:22:15,138
- And you were
sincere about that?

1445
01:22:15,139 --> 01:22:20,018
That if-if she does that
to the painting, then...

1446
01:22:20,019 --> 01:22:22,605
then you're cool with
what's happening between us.

1447
01:22:27,109 --> 01:22:29,362
- Okay. Um...

1448
01:22:30,571 --> 01:22:32,530
Okay.

1449
01:22:32,531 --> 01:22:34,158
Can you see that, Margot?

1450
01:22:35,493 --> 01:22:37,745
- Wh... Oh, dear.

1451
01:22:38,996 --> 01:22:41,248
What's happened
to Harold's face?

1452
01:22:42,917 --> 01:22:44,877
- Your daughter
asked me to do that.

1453
01:22:46,712 --> 01:22:49,339
- Why?

1454
01:22:49,340 --> 01:22:52,676
- Not sure, Margot.
She didn't explain.

1455
01:22:52,677 --> 01:22:54,136
- So, why did you do it?

1456
01:22:58,808 --> 01:23:00,725
- Because.

1457
01:23:00,726 --> 01:23:03,729
She doesn't want to see his face
anymore when she comes to visit.

1458
01:23:09,694 --> 01:23:11,569
So, um...

1459
01:23:11,570 --> 01:23:12,988
can you think of
a reason why?

1460
01:23:17,034 --> 01:23:20,495
- Jeanie thinks
that Harold was a bad man.

1461
01:23:20,496 --> 01:23:21,956
[tender score]
- Why?

1462
01:23:23,374 --> 01:23:25,500
- He loved her.

1463
01:23:25,501 --> 01:23:26,836
- What's wrong with that?

1464
01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:30,588
[discordant score]

1465
01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:32,383
- He loved her too much.

1466
01:23:34,093 --> 01:23:38,430
[sobbing]

1467
01:23:38,431 --> 01:23:40,432
- Dimitra: What does that mean?

1468
01:23:40,433 --> 01:23:41,934
- What does that mean?

1469
01:23:47,565 --> 01:23:49,817
You can leave the painting
like that if you want.

1470
01:23:52,695 --> 01:23:54,238
[gentle, shuddering inhale]

1471
01:23:55,531 --> 01:23:57,073
[exhale]

1472
01:23:57,074 --> 01:23:58,617
- I hurt you.

1473
01:24:00,995 --> 01:24:02,705
[Margot sobs]

1474
01:24:09,128 --> 01:24:10,754
- How can you expect me
to agree?

1475
01:24:10,755 --> 01:24:12,422
- Because, Rachel,
you're gonna get to sing

1476
01:24:12,423 --> 01:24:14,591
with a real orchestra.

1477
01:24:14,592 --> 01:24:17,719
This is what you
always dreamed of. Shit.

1478
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,555
- It's blackmail, Clea.
You've blackmailed the company

1479
01:24:20,556 --> 01:24:22,223
into letting me perform.

1480
01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:24,809
- I've discussed it with Ambur

1481
01:24:24,810 --> 01:24:27,103
and she's agreed to it.

1482
01:24:27,104 --> 01:24:29,063
- Well, that's even worse.
- Why?

1483
01:24:29,064 --> 01:24:31,441
- Is she still getting paid?
- Well, I mean...

1484
01:24:31,442 --> 01:24:35,278
normally it would go to you,
but, in this case...

1485
01:24:35,279 --> 01:24:37,113
- But, we'll, just, uh,
pay her something.

1486
01:24:37,114 --> 01:24:38,740
- No, we didn't get into
to those details.

1487
01:24:38,741 --> 01:24:40,784
- Like a kickback?
- No, it's not like that.

1488
01:24:40,785 --> 01:24:42,827
- Or go back
and extort more.

1489
01:24:42,828 --> 01:24:44,662
- Okay, why are you
looking at this

1490
01:24:44,663 --> 01:24:46,664
as though I've done something,
like, criminal?

1491
01:24:46,665 --> 01:24:48,918
- Because it's really
the only way to see it, Clea.

1492
01:24:50,544 --> 01:24:53,797
Maybe you even planned it
from the beginning.

1493
01:24:53,798 --> 01:24:55,716
[bottle clunks onto table]
[clock ticking quietly]

1494
01:24:57,635 --> 01:25:01,012
- Rachel, how could you
say that to me?

1495
01:25:01,013 --> 01:25:04,349
(voice shaking)
He made a pass at me.

1496
01:25:04,350 --> 01:25:08,979
I didn't plan that.
I said stop and he didn't.

1497
01:25:11,315 --> 01:25:14,150
- And you taped it all.
- Yes, because the opera company

1498
01:25:14,151 --> 01:25:15,778
told me to.

1499
01:25:17,404 --> 01:25:19,864
- And he knew
that the camera was on him?

1500
01:25:19,865 --> 01:25:21,950
- Yes.

1501
01:25:21,951 --> 01:25:23,326
- He was aware
that he was being taped?

1502
01:25:23,327 --> 01:25:25,453
- Yes. I just told you that.

1503
01:25:25,454 --> 01:25:27,372
Oh, my God.
You sound just like them.

1504
01:25:27,373 --> 01:25:29,165
[Clea sniffles]

1505
01:25:29,166 --> 01:25:32,293
[Clea sobs]

1506
01:25:32,294 --> 01:25:34,380
[sniffles, sighs]

1507
01:25:41,178 --> 01:25:43,222
Rachel... [sniffles]

1508
01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,852
I am doing this...
for you.

1509
01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:52,647
It's not about me.

1510
01:25:52,648 --> 01:25:54,399
- Clea...

1511
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:56,818
- It's because I love you.

1512
01:25:56,819 --> 01:25:58,320
- How can you say that?

1513
01:26:01,198 --> 01:26:02,658
He attacked you.

1514
01:26:03,784 --> 01:26:04,993
You-you don't feel

1515
01:26:04,994 --> 01:26:07,245
- ...anything about that?
- Of course I do.

1516
01:26:07,246 --> 01:26:09,831
- You knew
the camera was on him.

1517
01:26:09,832 --> 01:26:12,917
You knew that you could
use his actions

1518
01:26:12,918 --> 01:26:14,711
to frame him and, then,

1519
01:26:14,712 --> 01:26:17,338
the whole time it's happening
you-you have a plan?

1520
01:26:17,339 --> 01:26:20,049
- No, the plan
didn't occur to me until

1521
01:26:20,050 --> 01:26:22,428
after it happened.

1522
01:26:26,724 --> 01:26:27,725
- Clea...

1523
01:26:29,226 --> 01:26:32,146
what you are proposing to do
is wrong.

1524
01:26:35,357 --> 01:26:37,067
What are you going to do?

1525
01:26:38,444 --> 01:26:39,945
With the recording?

1526
01:26:42,698 --> 01:26:44,491
[applause,
enthusiastic shouts]

1527
01:26:51,582 --> 01:26:53,042
[orchestra plays]

1528
01:26:55,878 --> 01:26:57,754
- I don't know.

1529
01:26:57,755 --> 01:26:59,547
Shouldn't we
go back to the opening?

1530
01:26:59,548 --> 01:27:02,967
- It's only a five-minute walk.
We can head out really soon.

1531
01:27:02,968 --> 01:27:04,135
- Right, you have to
take a bow.

1532
01:27:04,136 --> 01:27:07,263
- Yeah, I have to
take my big bow.

1533
01:27:07,264 --> 01:27:09,098
I just want to take a moment
to celebrate with you.

1534
01:27:09,099 --> 01:27:10,684
Just the two of us.

1535
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:17,023
- I had a dream last night
that I got to play the part.

1536
01:27:17,024 --> 01:27:19,068
- Like one of those
anxiety dreams?

1537
01:27:20,986 --> 01:27:22,320
- What do you mean?

1538
01:27:22,321 --> 01:27:24,447
- Like when you open your mouth
and nothing comes out

1539
01:27:24,448 --> 01:27:26,115
or you're late for an exam
or you don't know

1540
01:27:26,116 --> 01:27:27,659
- ...the answers to stuff.
- [cork pops]

1541
01:27:27,660 --> 01:27:29,243
Ooh. Incredible.

1542
01:27:29,244 --> 01:27:31,037
- No, I, uh, I sang well.

1543
01:27:31,038 --> 01:27:34,165
- It's not my house. [laughs]
Well, that's unsurprising.

1544
01:27:34,166 --> 01:27:36,334
- [glass clinks]
- Good for you.

1545
01:27:36,335 --> 01:27:38,920
- Even after I lost my head,
I kept singing.

1546
01:27:38,921 --> 01:27:41,339
- Really? That's handy.

1547
01:27:41,340 --> 01:27:42,758
[Luke laughs]

1548
01:27:44,093 --> 01:27:46,511
- [glass clinks on bottle]
- It was strange.

1549
01:27:46,512 --> 01:27:48,346
- Yeah, I bet. Cheers.

1550
01:27:48,347 --> 01:27:49,723
[glasses clink]

1551
01:27:51,475 --> 01:27:54,352
- It's the toughest part
of the opera.

1552
01:27:54,353 --> 01:27:55,728
- What?

1553
01:27:55,729 --> 01:27:58,523
- She sings at the head
way too long

1554
01:27:58,524 --> 01:28:00,109
before she kisses it.

1555
01:28:02,903 --> 01:28:05,197
- Well, there's nothing we can
really do about that now.

1556
01:28:06,949 --> 01:28:08,784
[quiet slurp]
[gentle score]

1557
01:28:13,580 --> 01:28:16,333
I wanna kiss thy lips,
John the Baptist.

1558
01:28:21,547 --> 01:28:23,298
- I will not look at thee.

1559
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:26,301
Thou art accursed.

1560
01:28:28,971 --> 01:28:30,472
- Okay.

1561
01:28:32,099 --> 01:28:34,309
It is of thy hair
that I am enamored.

1562
01:28:36,812 --> 01:28:38,354
[glass clinks onto table]

1563
01:28:38,355 --> 01:28:39,940
There is nothing in the world

1564
01:28:41,525 --> 01:28:43,110
like your hair.

1565
01:28:44,153 --> 01:28:46,821
When the moon hides her face.

1566
01:28:46,822 --> 01:28:49,366
- [frustrated sigh]
- When the stars are afraid.

1567
01:28:51,368 --> 01:28:52,953
Let me touch thy hair.

1568
01:29:04,006 --> 01:29:08,968
The head of Jokanaan

1569
01:29:08,969 --> 01:29:10,011
No!

1570
01:29:10,012 --> 01:29:15,224
Ah! That is well said,
my daughter.

1571
01:29:15,225 --> 01:29:16,351
[cell phone dings]

1572
01:29:20,564 --> 01:29:22,274
[singing continues]

1573
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:29,907
- Can you fill this?

1574
01:29:33,118 --> 01:29:34,578
What is it?

1575
01:29:44,338 --> 01:29:46,882
[singing continues]

1576
01:29:48,717 --> 01:29:51,512
[energetic orchestra music]

1577
01:30:14,618 --> 01:30:16,578
Who has taken my ring?

1578
01:30:22,709 --> 01:30:25,462
There was a ring
in my right hand

1579
01:30:27,381 --> 01:30:29,299
Who has drunk my wine?

1580
01:30:30,634 --> 01:30:33,344
There was wine in my cup

1581
01:30:33,345 --> 01:30:36,264
It was full of wine
Someone has drunk it

1582
01:30:36,265 --> 01:30:39,559
[music, singing continue]

1583
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:41,102
- I thought we had
an understanding.

1584
01:30:41,103 --> 01:30:43,146
- We did.
- What, she went ahead anyway?

1585
01:30:43,147 --> 01:30:45,523
- Obviously.
- Is this already online?

1586
01:30:45,524 --> 01:30:47,234
- Yeah, that's how I saw it.

1587
01:30:48,986 --> 01:30:53,740
I am sure some
misfortune will happen

1588
01:30:57,286 --> 01:31:00,037
[dramatic rumbling]

1589
01:31:00,038 --> 01:31:01,540
[exhales]

1590
01:31:13,802 --> 01:31:17,263
There is no sound.

1591
01:31:17,264 --> 01:31:20,641
I hear nothing

1592
01:31:20,642 --> 01:31:24,521
Why does he not cry out,
this man?

1593
01:31:27,566 --> 01:31:32,069
Ah! If any man
sought to kill me,

1594
01:31:32,070 --> 01:31:35,364
I would cry out,
I would struggle.

1595
01:31:35,365 --> 01:31:38,993
I would not suffer...

1596
01:31:38,994 --> 01:31:42,831
Strike, Naaman, strike,
I tell you...

1597
01:31:44,833 --> 01:31:46,542
- I apologized after this

1598
01:31:46,543 --> 01:31:48,461
and I don't know
what else to do, I-I-I...

1599
01:31:48,462 --> 01:31:50,338
- Stop, please stop. Enough.

1600
01:31:50,339 --> 01:31:52,298
[orchestra playing]
[Ambur singing]

1601
01:31:52,299 --> 01:31:54,383
[Beatrice sighs]

1602
01:31:54,384 --> 01:31:56,969
- But, uh...

1603
01:31:56,970 --> 01:31:59,306
do I still take
the curtain call?

1604
01:32:01,892 --> 01:32:03,226
[Beatrice scoffs]

1605
01:32:03,227 --> 01:32:07,189
[dramatic drumming]

1606
01:32:18,742 --> 01:32:27,124
Ah! Thou wouldst not
suffer me to kiss...

1607
01:32:27,125 --> 01:32:35,550
thy mouth, Jokanaan!

1608
01:32:40,055 --> 01:32:46,728
Well, I will kiss it now.

1609
01:33:10,335 --> 01:33:16,048
I will bite it
with my teeth...

1610
01:33:16,049 --> 01:33:18,759
- Jeanine: An enraged princess
who would extract her price.

1611
01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:23,139
with my teeth

1612
01:33:23,140 --> 01:33:28,103
as one bites
a ripe fruit.

1613
01:33:32,774 --> 01:33:35,110
Her stepfather begs her
to change her mind.

1614
01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:39,406
I know I have sworn an oath,
he says.

1615
01:33:41,450 --> 01:33:43,076
I have always loved.

1616
01:33:44,745 --> 01:33:46,620
Perhaps I have
loved you too much.

1617
01:33:46,621 --> 01:33:53,086
[applause, cheering]

1618
01:34:04,765 --> 01:34:08,893
The conductor leaves his podium
and finds his way to the stage.

1619
01:34:08,894 --> 01:34:11,604
As the curtain rises,
Salome is there.

1620
01:34:11,605 --> 01:34:14,565
Her dress
splattered in blood.

1621
01:34:14,566 --> 01:34:18,361
She waves her red-stained hands
to the cheering crowd.

1622
01:34:18,362 --> 01:34:20,988
She expresses her gratitude
to the musicians

1623
01:34:20,989 --> 01:34:23,366
in the pit below.

1624
01:34:23,367 --> 01:34:25,493
I'm taping this all

1625
01:34:25,494 --> 01:34:27,328
fully aware
that I'm supposed to be

1626
01:34:27,329 --> 01:34:29,413
backstage now as well.

1627
01:34:29,414 --> 01:34:31,249
[applause, cheering continue]

1628
01:34:34,961 --> 01:34:36,879
I pan my camera
back to the stage

1629
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:38,589
and see Salome gesturing

1630
01:34:38,590 --> 01:34:41,217
for the conductor
to take his applause.

1631
01:34:41,218 --> 01:34:42,510
[quiet haunting score]

1632
01:34:42,511 --> 01:34:44,971
This is where
I'm supposed to now be.

1633
01:34:48,100 --> 01:34:50,226
Taking my bow.

1634
01:34:50,227 --> 01:34:51,895
But they realize
that I'm a no-show.

1635
01:34:56,817 --> 01:34:59,611
They're still applauding
for you, Charles.

1636
01:35:01,446 --> 01:35:03,280
Even with
all the changes I've made.

1637
01:35:03,281 --> 01:35:04,658
[theatre sounds fade out]

1638
01:35:23,427 --> 01:35:25,261
- Will mine be ready in time?

1639
01:35:25,262 --> 01:35:26,388
[score fades out]

1640
01:35:28,473 --> 01:35:30,558
- No.

1641
01:35:30,559 --> 01:35:33,018
We'll have to use
his head tonight.

1642
01:35:33,019 --> 01:35:34,395
- That's a bit of a stretch.
- [quiet score]

1643
01:35:34,396 --> 01:35:36,105
- Well, we don't have a choice.

1644
01:35:36,106 --> 01:35:39,650
We're gonna work on yours,
but it'll take a while.

1645
01:35:39,651 --> 01:35:42,111
We should have it ready
for the recording, though.

1646
01:35:42,112 --> 01:35:44,280
- The recording?

1647
01:35:44,281 --> 01:35:46,490
So, I'll be doing
the broadcast?

1648
01:35:46,491 --> 01:35:47,951
[cape flutters]

1649
01:35:49,161 --> 01:35:51,162
Wow.

1650
01:35:51,163 --> 01:35:52,956
- You're very lucky.
- [snap clicks]

1651
01:35:56,126 --> 01:35:57,752
- What if I'm terrible?

1652
01:35:59,963 --> 01:36:01,338
What if I can't see
the conductor?

1653
01:36:01,339 --> 01:36:03,966
You know, the whole thing
with the blindfold.

1654
01:36:03,967 --> 01:36:05,469
- The blindfold's see-through.

1655
01:36:08,263 --> 01:36:09,848
No, you'll be amazing.

1656
01:36:11,475 --> 01:36:14,561
I know how seriously
you and Rachel were preparing.

1657
01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:18,647
- I'd prefer to do it with her.

1658
01:36:18,648 --> 01:36:20,232
With Rachel.

1659
01:36:20,233 --> 01:36:23,235
- Well, that's not an option.

1660
01:36:23,236 --> 01:36:24,654
[sniffles]

1661
01:36:27,157 --> 01:36:29,826
[inhale, exhale]

1662
01:36:38,877 --> 01:36:41,170
- I'm sorry.

1663
01:36:41,171 --> 01:36:43,840
- I didn't mean to--
- No, it's okay.

1664
01:36:48,803 --> 01:36:51,388
I can imagine how brilliant

1665
01:36:51,389 --> 01:36:55,059
you and Rachel
would've been together.

1666
01:36:55,060 --> 01:36:56,561
[tub down
on wooden table]

1667
01:36:58,313 --> 01:37:00,564
And she's gonna get
her chance too.

1668
01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:02,025
One day.

1669
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:04,903
[cracking]

1670
01:37:06,780 --> 01:37:08,072
- Jeanine:
From our conversation

1671
01:37:08,073 --> 01:37:11,158
she knew that a sculpture
wouldn't do.

1672
01:37:11,159 --> 01:37:13,077
That a cast
was more accurate.

1673
01:37:13,078 --> 01:37:16,372
- Ready?
- Even if it was more invasive.

1674
01:37:16,373 --> 01:37:17,958
[tearing, cracking]

1675
01:37:20,293 --> 01:37:23,003
- Okay, keep your eyes closed.
Just keep 'em closed.

1676
01:37:23,004 --> 01:37:25,089
- Don't open them.
- Why not?

1677
01:37:25,090 --> 01:37:26,257
- Because some of the plaster

1678
01:37:26,258 --> 01:37:27,841
might have stuck
to your eyelashes

1679
01:37:27,842 --> 01:37:30,094
and you don't
want it to hurt.

1680
01:37:30,095 --> 01:37:31,638
- No, I don't.

1681
01:37:34,724 --> 01:37:37,561
- Little bit more.

1682
01:37:39,563 --> 01:37:41,897
Okay.

1683
01:37:41,898 --> 01:37:46,110
Now, open them slowly.

1684
01:37:46,111 --> 01:37:47,945
Mmm.

1685
01:37:47,946 --> 01:37:52,283
- She stares at his face
with a sense of accomplishment.

1686
01:37:52,284 --> 01:37:54,910
Proud of how
she's created this...

1687
01:37:54,911 --> 01:37:57,955
most magical of mirrors.

1688
01:37:57,956 --> 01:37:59,332
My daughter
has done well

1689
01:38:03,837 --> 01:38:07,047
Herodias sings that Salome
has made the right choice.

1690
01:38:07,048 --> 01:38:09,425
Finally, after years
of witnessing her husband

1691
01:38:09,426 --> 01:38:11,260
abuse her daughter,
she's ready to inflict

1692
01:38:11,261 --> 01:38:13,138
some crazy justice.

1693
01:38:14,264 --> 01:38:17,099
This is my interpretation,
Charles.

1694
01:38:17,100 --> 01:38:19,560
I have no idea
what you would've made of it.

1695
01:38:19,561 --> 01:38:21,770
[dramatic rumbling]

1696
01:38:21,771 --> 01:38:23,355
As the empty bowl
is presented,

1697
01:38:23,356 --> 01:38:26,734
she has no more than a minute
to fill it with the fake blood.

1698
01:38:26,735 --> 01:38:29,111
The tricky part comes next.

1699
01:38:29,112 --> 01:38:32,448
She takes the prop,
places it under her arm.

1700
01:38:32,449 --> 01:38:34,867
Then, like a proud mother
nursing her child

1701
01:38:34,868 --> 01:38:37,786
she feeds the special formula
that looks so real

1702
01:38:37,787 --> 01:38:40,748
into the gaping wound
of the severed head.

1703
01:38:40,749 --> 01:38:43,667
She needs to fill the cavity
to capacity

1704
01:38:43,668 --> 01:38:46,629
so there's enough blood to drip
onto Salome's white dress

1705
01:38:46,630 --> 01:38:49,548
for the entire length
of her final aria.

1706
01:38:49,549 --> 01:38:50,759
[Ambur sings in German]

1707
01:38:57,307 --> 01:39:00,934
He was so beautiful to her...

1708
01:39:00,935 --> 01:39:03,520
that if he had only
looked at her,

1709
01:39:03,521 --> 01:39:06,523
he would've loved her too.

1710
01:39:06,524 --> 01:39:09,485
That the mystery of love

1711
01:39:09,486 --> 01:39:12,029
is greater
than the mystery of death.

1712
01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:16,660
[dramatic drumming]

1713
01:39:18,787 --> 01:39:22,498
She is monstrous,
thy daughter.

1714
01:39:22,499 --> 01:39:25,334
She is altogether
monstrous!

1715
01:39:25,335 --> 01:39:27,753
I approve of what
my daughter has done.

1716
01:39:27,754 --> 01:39:30,005
And I will stay here now.

1717
01:39:30,006 --> 01:39:33,509
Ah, there speaks
the incestuous wife!

1718
01:39:33,510 --> 01:39:38,013
Come! I will not stay here

1719
01:39:38,014 --> 01:39:41,392
Come! I tell thee.

1720
01:39:41,393 --> 01:39:45,396
Surely some terrible thing
will befall.

1721
01:39:45,397 --> 01:39:49,817
[opera music continues]

1722
01:39:49,818 --> 01:39:53,405
[phone buzzing]

1723
01:40:03,331 --> 01:40:05,582
- Hi. How'd it go?

1724
01:40:05,583 --> 01:40:08,001
- Luke: It's still going.

1725
01:40:08,002 --> 01:40:10,713
- I would've loved
to have been there.

1726
01:40:10,714 --> 01:40:14,383
- I'm in the dressing room now.
She's kissing my lips.

1727
01:40:14,384 --> 01:40:15,468
[Ambur sings tenderly
in German]

1728
01:40:19,347 --> 01:40:21,181
- She just said
that the mystery of love

1729
01:40:21,182 --> 01:40:23,768
is greater than
the mystery of death.

1730
01:40:25,729 --> 01:40:29,857
She's about to say
that love has a bitter taste.

1731
01:40:29,858 --> 01:40:31,776
- They're calling me to go.

1732
01:40:33,987 --> 01:40:35,613
[dramatic loud orchestra]

1733
01:40:42,662 --> 01:40:47,708
- Jeanine: I have kissed
thy mouth, John the Baptist.

1734
01:40:47,709 --> 01:40:50,795
I have kissed thy mouth.

1735
01:41:14,903 --> 01:41:17,363
[dramatic drumming]
[sustained tremolo by violins]

1736
01:41:25,163 --> 01:41:27,540
[woodwinds play haunting melody
over violin tremolo]

1737
01:41:31,127 --> 01:41:32,879
[flutes join
with hopeful melody]

1738
01:41:45,558 --> 01:41:47,310
[volume rises,
score turns darker]

1739
01:41:54,609 --> 01:41:56,110
[triumphant score]

1740
01:42:17,006 --> 01:42:18,632
[ascending harp arpeggio]

1741
01:42:18,633 --> 01:42:20,718
[other instruments play
ascending arpeggios]

1742
01:42:56,004 --> 01:42:59,006
[gentle score]

1743
01:42:59,007 --> 01:43:00,883
[brass accent]

1744
01:43:00,884 --> 01:43:02,968
[string accent]

1745
01:43:02,969 --> 01:43:05,178
[brass fanfare]

1746
01:43:05,179 --> 01:43:07,640
[frenetic drumming]

1747
01:43:13,187 --> 01:43:15,398
[drum flourishes
as credits disappear]

1748
01:43:18,985 --> 01:43:21,361
[fade to silence]

1749
01:43:21,362 --> 01:43:23,072
[airy glockenspiel score]

1750
01:48:55,196 --> 01:48:56,571
[score fades out]

1751
01:48:56,572 --> 01:48:58,365
[forest sounds]

1752
01:48:58,366 --> 01:49:01,618
[crow cawing in distance]

1753
01:49:01,619 --> 01:49:03,329
[rope creaking]

1754
01:49:05,081 --> 01:49:06,832
[crows cawing]
[thunder rumbling]

1755
01:49:25,226 --> 01:49:26,686
[all sounds fade out]