Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome, on stage January 25 – February 14, 2026. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Single tickets for The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2025-26 Classical Season have officially gone on sale today (August 14). Available tickets include the Recital Series, along with ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

Seduction, obsession, and a deadly dance. Strauss’s Salome is a daring, audacious tour-de-force that stunned audiences when it premiered—and still shocks today. With its sweeping orchestration, ...

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The minimalist set draws all attention to the characters and their turbulent emotions, while Homoki takes notable liberties with the narrative, deviating from the original plot in several key details.

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

“A Man of No Importance,” an off-Broadway musical based on the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney as a Dublin bus conductor with an obsession for Oscar Wilde and a yen for amateur theatricals, was a ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where each week in this space, we’ll be taking a look at shows coming to the region over the next seven days. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock and roll, jazz, ...