The never-ending lure of a never-ending story
Is there a sexier tale than Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights - how she beguiled her royal husband, Shahriyar, with stories of Sinbad and Aladdin and Ali Baba to keep him from cutting off her head? Scheherazade has found her way into film (notably the two versions of “The Thief of Baghdad’’), dance (Michel Fokine’s ballet for the Ballets Russes), and classical ...