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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS — Taylor Swift isn't the only singer fans are flocking to Paris to hear. Lise Davidsen has become classical music’s biggest draw, attracting crowds to the Paris Opéra for her first performances ...

For its mini-Richard Strauss festival, Houston Symphony has bracketed the three-program presentation with his first great operatic masterpiece, Salome, performed in concert staging. Branded as ...

Johann Strauss’ “Salome,” the second production of the Washington National Opera’s 2010-2011 season, is all about opposites: hedonism versus asceticism; devotion to physical excess versus devotion to ...

On April 7, 8, 14 and 16, at the NOVA Center for Performing Arts, Rimrock Opera will present one of the most infamous tales in the Bible’s New Testament, "Salome," in operatic form. Salome, composed ...

A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...

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 ...