Review: In ‘Salome’ by Lyric Opera, devastating excess is the point

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

A blood-drenched ‘Salome’ is too much of the wrong thing

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

What to know about the darkly twisted ‘Salome,’ which is back at the Lyric Opera after two decades

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

Seven Takes on Opera’s Most Lurid Dance

Performances in N.Y.C. 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. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...
Observer

Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look

Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion. We ...
The Forward

Is this salacious opera a critique of Jewishness — or a celebration of its complexity?

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 ...
The New Yorker

“Salome” Is the Opera That Fascinates Me Most

To say that Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is your favorite opera is a bit like saying that “The Shining” is your favorite film or that Edgar Allan Poe is your favorite author: it marks you as something ...
Observer

Claus Guth’s ‘Salome’ at the Met Says the Quiet Part Loud

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 ...