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