Word: jokanaan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about as seductive as a mazurka) that some critics could not decide whether she was more gifted as singer or dancer. And in her final scene, in which she kissed and fondled the lips of John the Baptist's severed head while murmuring "I have kissed your mouth, Jokanaan. Perhaps it was the taste of love," she evoked with authority the mood of mingled horror, fascination and fear that Strauss was after...