Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Salome is a dark and provocative opera centered on the biblical story of King Herod’s stepdaughter and her obsessive desire for John the Baptist (Jochanaan). Captivated by Jochanaan’s purity and ...

A quarter of a century ago, the directors of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company announced that Richard Strauss’ ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In every version of the story, Salome dances for Herod, and he is so pleased with ...

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 ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Of the six operas that comprise San Francisco Opera's fall 2009 season, Richard Strauss' Salomé is the outlier — a production that, by design, represents something of a departure from the musical and ...

NEW YORK – Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Every night I wake up with the most ...

WE WENT to see Richard Strauss’s “Salome” at the Metropolitan Opera Wednesday night, or let’s say that my love went and I went with her, she because she loves opera and I because I don’t know enough ...