Across the centuries, the story of Salome has been staged, scored, adapted, pushed and pulled in a welter of ways, always finding new ways to shock. On Sunday, the curtain went up on Richard Strauss’s ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name as adapted by librettist Hedwig Lachmann. Wilde was inspired by the Biblical tale of Princess Salome and ...

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 ...

Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion. We ...

Staged in deepest black and dingy white, Guth’s production is unapologetic in its symbolism. It opens on a girl playing with a doll in relative silence. She breaks off its arms moments before that ...

NEW YORK — Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in ...

Cincinnati Opera has unveiled the full lineup for its 2026 Summer Festival, running June 18 through August 2 at Cincinnati Music Hall. The announcement was made live from the Music Hall stage by Harry ...