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

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

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to fascist Italy of the 1930s, setting up weird geographical and chronological ...

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

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

WHEN “Salome” was produced for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera House, almost exactly twenty-seven years ago, the directors of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company promptly outlawed it ...

MR. EDMUND GOSSE, commenting on the lack of literary curiosity in the early years of the seventeenth century, ascribes it to a growing desire for real knowledge, to an increasing seriousness of mind.

House Targaryen finally makes an appearance in 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,' Episode 2. How are they related to those we know from 'Game of Thrones' and 'House of the Dragon'?

The Blackfyre Rebellion, set right before A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, explains everything about the state of Westeros.

Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

Editor's note: See who made the U.S. figure skating Olympic team for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. ST. LOUIS — For more than a decade, the U.S. championships have become the playground of Madison ...