The dark side of the human beingWhen Salome was first performed in 1905, it caused quite a scandal. Audiences had never before seen an opera which included paedophilia, necrophilia, incest and decapitation.Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, who knew well the darkest corners of the human heart, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which portrays very clearly our basest instincts. Salome could be described perfectly as the opera of…