When Karita Mattila does “Salome” at the Metropolitan Opera, she goes all the way — that is, she appears stark naked (briefly) at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils. The former general manager of ...

Karita Mattila, the sensational Finnish soprano returning to Houston after a 15-year absence, woos critics and audiences worldwide with portrayals of rebellious teens and maturing young women. There ...

Karita Mattila. Naked. Those three words have been on the mind of practically every New York opera fan for the last month as the Finnish soprano strips bare in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of ...

In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. By Zachary Woolfe Robert Wilson’s staging of ...

The performance begings at noon Saturday at the Town Plaza Cinema; the encore broadcast will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Finnish soprano Karita Mattila will be playing the part of Salome, the daughter of ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The story is so old, it's in the Bible. A Judean princess falls for a prophet, but when John the Baptist spurns her amorous advances, Salome contrives to have King Herod order his ...