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 ...
Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...
On April 7, 8, 14 and 16, at the NOVA Center for Performing Arts, Rimrock Opera will present one of the most infamous tales in the Bible’s New Testament, "Salome," in operatic form. Salome, composed ...
Originally packed with 17 characters, Heartbeat's reimagining by Jacob Ashworth and Elizabeth Dinkova homes in on seven powerhouse singers, each a crucial part of this pressure-cooker piece, spinning ...
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 ...
The full lineup of titles and artists has been revealed for Seattle Opera's 2026/27 season. An exploration of love in all its ...
A scandalous opera based on a scandalous play by Oscar Wilde — Salome — complete with the Dance of the Seven Veils is about to receive a new production courtesy of Houston Grand Opera and according to ...
One of the biggest challenges opera companies face is balancing their audiences’ unquenchable thirst for seeing the same dozen or so classic works with the need to present less-known and newer works ...
It’s perhaps worth seeing Houston Grand Opera’s new production of “Salome,” playing through May 12 at the Wortham Center’s Brown Theater, twice: once to follow the dramatic twists and turns of Oscar ...
Good Day Chicago’s Gabriella Premus goes behind the curtain at the Lyric Opera House for a closer look at Salome, the bold Oscar Wilde production hitting the Chicago stage.