Salome
Plot: This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Jochanaan, her venomous hatred when she's rejected, the crazed look in her eyes when she demands his head--on a silver platter, no less

Teresa Stratas
Hans Beirer
Astrid Varnay
Bernd Weikl
Wieslaw Ochman
Karl Böhm
Götz Friedrich
Richard Strauss