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 ...

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, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

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 ...

In both its storyline – culminating in the anti-heroine’s kissing of the mouth of the freshly decapitated Jochanaan – and the blistering intensity of its music, Richard Strauss’s Salome pushes ...

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 ...

Saura’s 2002 film is arguably the most passionate (unless you count Richard Strauss’) artistic rendering of the biblical temptress, famed for her dance of the seven veils. The flamenco-filled flick is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Gorgeous music, an intelligent text, a sensuous dance and a killer role for the soprano: They're all part of Richard Strauss' ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome, on stage January 25 – February 14, 2026. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 ...

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 ...