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

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 ...

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

Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Was Amanda Seyfried surprised when the offer came to star in “Seven Veils,” a movie about the Biblical teen temptress Salome who had John the Baptist beheaded — and she was not going to be doing the ...

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 ...