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 ...

In both its storyline – culminating in the anti-heroine’s kissing of the mouth of the freshly decapitated Jochanaan – and the blistering intensity of its music, Richard Strauss’s Salome pushes ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything ...

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 ...

MONTREAL — Richard Strauss' “Salomé” may be most notorious for its “Dance of the Seven Veils” or Salomé's erotic embrace with the head of John the Baptist, but the composer's rich setting of Oscar ...

One of the biggest challenges opera companies face is balancing their audiences’ unquenchable thirst for seeing the same dozen or so classic works with the need to present less-known and newer works ...

Originally packed with 17 characters, Heartbeat's reimagining by Jacob Ashworth and Elizabeth Dinkova homes in on seven powerhouse singers, each a crucial part of this pressure-cooker piece, spinning ...