Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...

Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.

The story of Salome comes to us from the Bible. She is the daughter of Herodias and Herod II. Her mother later marries her ...

Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera 4 Video: Lisette Oropesa Sings Act II Aria From I ...

Get a first look at Canadian Opera Company's SALOME! A dance-perhaps the most famous one in history-precedes a macabre kiss and an execution in this opera by Richard Strauss. An explosive, modernist ...

It’s perhaps worth seeing Houston Grand Opera’s new production of “Salome,” playing through May 12 at the Wortham Center’s Brown Theater, twice: once to follow the dramatic twists and turns of Oscar ...

On April 7, 8, 14 and 16, at the NOVA Center for Performing Arts, Rimrock Opera will present one of the most infamous tales in the Bible’s New Testament, "Salome," in operatic form. Salome, composed ...

A scandalous opera based on a scandalous play by Oscar Wilde — Salome — complete with the Dance of the Seven Veils is about to receive a new production courtesy of Houston Grand Opera and according to ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...