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

Mustafa Samdani's interesting, if sometimes muddled, adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" challenges the norms of traditional theater. The Production Workshop performance is an attempt to present a ...

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 ...

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Paris Richard Strauss’s ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Matthew Tennyson will play the titular role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Salomé this June. The character is usually played by a woman, but director Owen Horsley says his production "will paint ...