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

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

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

Richard Strauss' Salome packs a more dramatic wallop than almost any other opera. Adapted from the Oscar Wilde play, this one-act offers an intense portrait of its Biblical title character's emotional ...

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 Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on ...

Laura Wilde as Salome and Ryan McKinny as Jokanaa (John the Baptist) in Salome. Credit: Photo by Michael Bishop Abominable. Cacophonous. Cruelest discord. Disgusting. Madness. Although these ...

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 ...

A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...

An epic of literally biblical proportions, Salome is the story of the eponymous seductive princess who dances the dance of the seven veils for her stepfather Herod, king of Judea for the reward of ...