The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

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

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

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

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

Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Paris Richard Strauss’s ...

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Richard Strauss’s eerie and perverse Salome is based on ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet. By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome” begins with a swiftly slithering clarinet ...

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 ...