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 ...

Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers ...

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

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 ...

"To my friend Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas the translator of my play"--P. [9]. First English edition. "Of this edition 500 copies have been printed for England"--P. [4]. On verso of t.p.: Edinburgh : T.

Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend. Drama The Chicago-based dance-R&B duo lights up the Salt Shed this weekend with new tunes from their just-released album, “Platonic ...

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 ...

‘Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.’ So the stage is set for Oscar Wilde’s ...