Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...
Craig Pedro’s Ukukhanya Kwenyanga: A Moonlight Waltz, set to the music of Johann Strauss and Pietro Mascagni, merges classical ballet with South Africa’s Xhosa aesthetics. His choreography, featuring ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version of the country’s folk dances to New York. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version ...
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 ...