The story of Salome comes to us from the Bible. She is the daughter of Herodias and Herod II. Her mother later marries her ...

Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.

Salome’s disturbing obsession with John the Baptist drives her to make a shocking request: the head of the Prophet as a reward for performing the sensuous Dance of the Seven Veils. Based on Oscar ...

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Giovanni Andrea Sirani (possibly after) depicts the dramatic climax of a moralizing biblical narrative through a Baroque-era lens. Salome with the Head of ...

Based on Oscar Wilde’s dramatic adaptation of the biblical story of Salome and her lecherous stepfather, the dysfunctional and dangerous court of King Herod is brought to searing life through Richard ...

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 ...