Seven Veils

Mar 7, 2025

1h 47m

★ 5.6

Overview

Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

XYZ Films

Elevation Pictures

Rhombus Media

Ego Film Arts

IPR.VC

Cinetic Media

Crave

Canadian Opera Company

Seven Veils Trailers

Cast

Jeanine

Amanda Seyfried

Clea

Rebecca Liddiard

Luke

Douglas Smith

Paul

Mark O'Brien

Rachel

Vinessa Antoine

Ambur/Salome

Ambur Braid

Johan/John the Baptist

Michael Kupfer-Radecky

Nancy

Tara Nicodemo

Dimitra

Maia Jae

Margot

Lynne Griffin

Beatrice

Lanette Ware

Lizzie

Maya Misaljevic

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater. At the center of the action is Jimmy Mahoney (Richard Cassilly), a logger who stumbles onto the city of Mahagonny, where (almost) anything is allowed. Teresa Stratas gives a mesmerizing performance as Jenny, the prostitute who takes up with Jimmy, until he is executed for the greatest of all crimes in Mahagonny—to not have any money. The legendary Astrid Varnay, in her final Met appearances, is Leocadia Begbick, and Cornell MacNeil sings Trinity Moses.

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