Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...
Oscar Wilde's tragedy, Salome, was first translated into opera in 1905 by Richard Strauss. Combining dramatic vibratos and a seductive orchestral arrangement, Strauss' opera is intense to say the ...
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 ...
Jewish performers and spectators have long been bewitched by Salome, an otherwise obscure minor character name-checked by the historian Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews. As a new study by Cecily ...
’Tis the season for “Salome.” On Broadway in “Sunset Blvd.,” Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond is delusionally dreaming of ...
In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...
Isabella Soares is a Senior Writer for Collider, as well as a Cherry Picks-approved critic. A film and TV enthusiast from an early age, Isabella used to write reviews in her journal growing up, which ...