Salome, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: David McVicar's production of Strauss's Oscar Wildean shocker returns for its second Covent Garden revival, this time under the care of Barbara Lluch. It remains a good-looking show. Es Devlin's multilevel sets are brilliantly achieved, their references to the brutality of a crumbling dictatorship memorably realised. The complex background of Herod's decadent court is am…