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 ...

Review: In ‘Salome’ by Lyric Opera, devastating excess is the point

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

Review: The real star of Lyric Opera’s ‘Salome’ is Strauss’ extraordinary score

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

Behind the scenes at Lyric Opera: Previewing Oscar Wilde’s Salome

Good Day Chicago’s Gabriella Premus goes behind the curtain at the Lyric Opera House for a closer look at Salome, the bold ...
The New York Times

I’m Bidding My Opera Career Adieu. Here’s Why.

Ms. Graves, a mezzo-soprano, is an opera singer. After more than 40 years of singing in opera houses around the world, I have decided to retire from the stage. My last performance will be as Maria in ...
El Paso Times

Roger Brian Salome

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

Video: 'Io so che alle sue pene' from Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Metropolitan Opera

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III ...
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 Independent

In a breakneck digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
musicOMH

An English Song Winterreise review – Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn at Wigmore Hall

Roderick Williams is counted (in the world of ‘classical’ music, at any rate) as a national treasure, and these days we’re used to his platform appearances in large works. But he first rose to fame ...
The Guardian

UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they challenge myth of tortured artist

‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the ...
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Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company

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