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

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 ...

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

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

July 30, 1942 – December 27, 2025. Dr. Roger Brian Salome, D.D.S., beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend, passed away December 27 ...

Videos of actor Austin Butler swaying at a Bad Bunny concert went viral this summer. Video: Medialhuna/TikTok “Dance like nobody’s watching” was always sound advice for anyone hesitant to let loose at ...

Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...

Herod’s violence reveals the futility of earthly power. IT WAS A GROUP of astrologers “from the east” who first informed Herod that an heir to the Jewish throne had been born in his territory (v. 1).

RTE’s Dancing with the Stars has been given the go-ahead for one more run, Extra.ie can reveal. The national broadcaster’s autumn shiny-floor show is set to see season nine kick off on January 4, with ...

Early Christian sources differ on how many Magi visited the infant Jesus, and whether they were kings at all. "The Magi Journeying" by James Tissot. Tradition has landed on three wise men for the ...