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 ...
Chicago Reader

Losing your head at Lyric

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

There’s something about Mary

Mary Magdalene had already been on my mind as a few weeks earlier I had read a long essay (‘Mistaking Mary Magdalene’, April ...