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.
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago runs through Feb. 14.
In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's ...
The story of Salome comes to us from the Bible. She is the daughter of Herodias and Herod II. Her mother later marries her ...
One hundred and twenty-five years after his death, Oscar Wilde continues to unsettle the boundary between art and life. A major collection coming to auction in London invites a reconsideration of how ...
Seth Rogen, Ed Norton and Penélope Cruz co-star in the Sundance stand-out directed by Wilde.
Olivia Wilde's new film "The Invite" is turning heads at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. It's set in San Francisco and stars ...
A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to Olivia Wilde's comedy 'The Invite' after a bidding war among several buyers.
The movie, which stars Wilde as well as Seth Rogen, Ed Norton and Penelope Cruz, premiered to a standing ovation over the ...
There’s been a sting of standing ovations, which don’t happen often at Sundance, the fourth of which from our count was ...